Recent content by Random.Capital

There is no reason to speculate - they do.

The quickest way to dispel "doubt" is to pay people for the work you're asking them to do. It's a pretty serious alarm bell that you don't appear able to invest even the small amount of money necessary to have someone do this professionally.

Oil sands/shale aren't extractable at $20/bbl. That supply completely disappears long before such prices are reached.

That statement is incorrect. Professionals trade across all those asset classes, often simultaneously.

Well, if there are no first world countries that aren't significantly socialist, that would clear evidence that socialism actually works. Otherwise they wouldn't have become first world countries. PS. Between persistent deficit financing and high levels of corporate welfare, the US is in...

Hell yeah. :) But stewing up a lamb or goat before it's weaned and had a chance to put some meat on that skeleton? Nah, that I won't do, it would be like having a whack of chickens and never hatching an egg. ;) Those dusty old dudes were bang on...don't boil the kid in its mother milk...

"Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk." Same as it ever was...

There is more than one extremely well known and heavily used exchange where just the trip through the matching is going to take 50x that number.

I hear ya. Still have mental scars from '87.

It would have to be a much longer hold than that...to be really fair on a "global" scale, the order needs to be held until the same time-zone adjusted time is reached across all possible trading locations...

Nanex: this is what happens when a buggy mind goes crazy.

It sounds like you're working from a screen. That means a few things...first, your latency is well over "milliseconds" because it's going to take 32ms before your screen even refreshes...second, human reaction time is measured in tens of milliseconds at its best, more on the order of hundreds...

That's heading towards 1%er income so I'm not sure "tragic" is exactly the right descriptor, but I agree with the general sentiment, at $150k+ you should be able to find decent talent, assuming you have a good story to offer them. I had a junior (less < 2 years experience) guy implement a...

There are no stable banking systems. Non-fiat currencies go down just as hard and just as frequently as fiat currencies. It's in our nature as humans to blow shit up - there is no definition of "money" that will prevent us from doing so. Evolution is clearly selecting for fiat...obladi...

The government prints all kinds of "tangible stuff" that isn't money. Money is different. It represents an obligation, commonly expressed as a debt.