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    Suicide And Trading

    You will only wish to suicide in the presence of binary savages who have methodically stacked 25,000+ hrs of screen-time. This is what it sounds like when I siphon the fiscal health and soul out of those who wish to venture into my ominously inverted Valhalla... Die. Thorvaldr Trollvedgen
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    ES Journal - 2015

    Unusually large concentrated selling of trades >50 ES contract size @ ~1:10-1:30pm CST at initial approach to 2087.5-2088.5 zone. Approximately 14.4k volume of >50 contract blocks in this 4-tick zone, ~79.6k volume all contract size in same price/time zone. Short biased up through 97.5.
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    Gotta love ZERO RISK in the SP500 = $$$

    31,000 contracts moved ES 19pts. Say 3:1 buy/sell, ~22,000 buy-side. Peanuts. Or the equivalent overnight margin capacity of 5-6 hedgers on a single BB/HF desk. One can easily unload 10x+ that 22k/19pt rate to the sell-side at open during proceeding RTH. A joke when you think about it, but if...
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    Best vehicle to short the bond market?

    As others stated, very straightforward: ZN. 1256 contract tax structure, $2.5-3/lot for basic retail on no volume, <$1000 margin, 3-5x thicker than ES, has daily notional trade value 100-150x greater than mom n pop instrument like TLT, 24hr.
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    UK trader arrested for May 2010 U.S. Stock market flash crash

    Exactly. And that is where I fall, as does streetproof (at least that is my take). IMO Nav should be fined respective to the illicit gains and banned from CME for at least a few yrs (if not expelled) for the spoofing. I'd personally vote to permanently revoke his membership. But keep it inline...
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    UK trader arrested for May 2010 U.S. Stock market flash crash

    Strong questions raised here by streetprof. I can't help but echo similar sentiment: http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=9337
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    UK trader arrested for May 2010 U.S. Stock market flash crash

    Last night I said the exact same thing to my wife in digust. Those guys essentially walk on egregious manipulation that had exceptional large $ consequences, no mention of clawbacks, and this guy gaming the gamers is facing serious criminal charges. Furthermore, how do Michael Coscia & Nav get...
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    UK trader arrested for May 2010 U.S. Stock market flash crash

    First with MF. Then Knight for very short period, then settled @RJO TT (+API) + Edge Financial Technologies front-end (I thought it was ADL until getting more confirmation) RJO doesn't make sense to me: they offered dogsh*t rates when they established a proposal with me about 2.5yrs back for...
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    Are you a successful at home day trader with no other source of income who began with modest means?

    http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?posts/3801212/ Don't post here much, by chance stumbled upon this thread. FWIW, posted the above anecdote of my trading career a couple years back. I suppose the title of this thread doesn't apply to me as I had a bit more than modest beginnings given the...
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    ES Journal - 2014

    Have never posted in a journal... ~55k volume cluster @ 64.25, ~40k @ 64.50 in <30 mins. Rather large inventory churn in tight spacing, worth marking down for the first potential naked approach on Mon/Tues (if it's not the daily POC). Will be looking to layer into these levels on any low/avg...
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    Card to support 4 monitors

    For those that are potentially in the market for a 4 connect per card, I run and recommend the PNY NVS 510. Perhaps it has already been recommended, so add me to the list. Do not be scared by the fan, it is excellent quality and essentially silent at normal operating distance. I was strictly...
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    Windows OEM vs Retail

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions You can compare here. I use several features not available on Home which relate to Network/EFS. Otherwise it is identical for most user needs.
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    Windows OEM vs Retail

    I have purchased 4 individual OEM licenses from both Amazon and Microcenter for (2) trading and (2) personal computers. I bought from both of these sources...
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    NANEX- FOMC announcement shenanigans by HFT

    AustinP/Clubber Lang: Sigh. CQG IC (Advantage Futures backbone) and IQFeed 5.1 had only a ~300ms differential shift per live collect on TY & ES tick, and were nearly identical on historical data parse. Both incorrect? Right. I used this data to make above commentary. I've attached a CQG/IQ ES...
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    NANEX- FOMC announcement shenanigans by HFT

    Opening Nanex quote: "Market reaction to the FOMC news was instant. Within a thousandth of a second, the move was already over." Is this one of those ZHedge moments where an off-the-cuff exaggeration is anticipated to be easily slipped past the uninformed? I had about ~6 secs to digest and...
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