Recent content by USAtrader

Best Day: $64k (this was during the credit crisis, and had multiple days in the $20k-$60k range shorting the likes of RDN/MTG/MBI/OCN/Indymac). I would just watch my things, short the weak - i.e. everything then, and close out any reds in the blotter, holding the greens. It was easy to hold...

That list is useless. It is merely a list of 13F long stock, and nothing else. Doesn't measure anything else in portfolio, nor can/does it factor a funds basis for position. Meaningless. "Hedge fund returns are based on the weighted average return of each hedge fund's long stock positions in...

Wow. Horrendous timing.

Can you tell me about that side wall...is that grasscloth? If so, do you know exactly which it is by chance? Thanks.

Why the fuss? Many prop traders get 50:1+ (intraday stock prop) - unless you mean forex only.

:). They must have read this thread.

This guy is more inspiring of confidence than the president. That's sad for our nation that we can't rely on our president to inspire confidence and assurance. Obama's conference the other day (yest?) was probably the least confidence-inspiring pep talk to the nation during a (market) crisis...

These are two very different things. One thing that doesn't much change across various forms of this stuff: the success rate is low with either of these. You don't hear about the many HFT's that fail/blow up after making money, nor the ones that started up but never quite made it (just like most...

Yes.

Sh%t....and I would've been up nearly 100% instantly :(.

I have been a customer of Zipcar for about 8 years (in NYC and DC). I now live in an area where I have no particular need or use for the service (also have 2 cars now). I've always loved the service, and if I returned to those cities I would concurrently re-sign up for membership...

I don't much use them, but these are not highly sophisticated algo's only available through select providers. Even IB offers a bunch as standard execution algo's.

=DJ NYSE Hides Names Of Stock Buyers And Sellers From Traders Wed Jan 26 15:40:42 2011 EST By Kristina Peterson, Donna Kardos Yesalavich and Jacob Bunge Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Information about stock market trades that used to flow through the floor...