Recent content by FGBS

Started off trading European bond future curve, now trade a little bit of everything.

If you vote other why not post what you think is easiest?

What do you guys think is the easiest category to make a living in with a reasonably proffesional setup and software (Bloomberg, Reuters, Squawk & decent trading software)? Why?

Perfectly described. Total joke that they are trying to do this 3 years later. Yes GS made craploads of money, and yes the $10B might have helped them and yes they benefited GREATLY from the AIG bailout... BUT who put a gun to ACA and IKB's head and forced them to buy these products? You...

To think these people run the United States scares me!!! How can market makers act in the best interest of their counter party? Yes investment advisors should act in the best interest of clients but Market Makers cannot do so, it totally defeats the purpose. If I go to a shop the seller wants...

Hey AS, I followed your Short Dax thread when I lived in Europe when you first started it, have moved to the AsiaPac now and see you are now trading here too... What timezone are you based in?

1) The employees made money 2) The company is only worth as much as the sum of their intellectual capital 3) Why not pay the employees accordingly? 4) These companies are publicly owned, why if you don't hold the stock should you care? And if you do hold the stock then pass something at an...

The reason why this question gets no replies is because it is hard to generalise without proper backround information. You give no backround information on what you are going to do. How many hours a week will you spend trading? What products will you trade? Will it be fundamental...

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Cheers for the update Dogfish, at niether work for a small startup called LTS. Is Transmarket same setup as you would expect of the typical London shop? (I spent a month training at Curvalue and 2 weeks at Saxon when I first started and the owner of Curvalue got a group of us over there getting...

Sorry this is a copy paste from another thread but thought it deserved its own thread title. Just a quick post to see if anyone can give an update on how everyone is doing at some of the prop shops or trading arcades in London. Which shops are still reasonably full? I traded FGBL/FGBM/FGBS...

Just a quick post to see if anyone can give an update on how everyone is doing at some of the prop shops or trading arcades in London. Which shops are still reasonably full? I traded FGBL/FGBM/FGBS from 2002-2005 and have since moved to more algorithmic trading down under but always curious...