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    NYSE to Pay $14 Million Penalty for Multiple Violations

    Dealing with regulation, and keeping auditors comfortable - the core business of the industry these days....
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    Nassim Taleb: "Who got burried?"

    The smartest guys in the room are often right, but always too early.
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    A Brief History of Free Money

    Universal Basic Income? How about universal basic tax Everyone pays the same To make it "fair" and just.
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    Are Any EliteTrader Users In A Prop Firm? What Are Your Returns Like?

    Hrm. That would surprise me. SPI seems horrible between 11am and 3pm Sydney. But i guess if you can make a buck out of that, you're definitely doing something right. AS51/ES .. plausible ;- )
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    Are Any EliteTrader Users In A Prop Firm? What Are Your Returns Like?

    Anyone trading SPI successfully at your shop - other than at the open and close?
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    Are Any EliteTrader Users In A Prop Firm? What Are Your Returns Like?

    Unsure there's much to learn at a prop firm. Punting rate futures tick by tick is a computer game. Trading news is best done by insiders. Experience inside a brokerage is worth something, as is stat arb exposure imo. Market maker prop companies could be worthwhile i guess.
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    Are Any EliteTrader Users In A Prop Firm? What Are Your Returns Like?

    I'm unsure I believe all of the above. A couple of guys I used to work with, who've been booted from institutional desks for various reasons have briefly sat in prop shops, in-between careers. Story I've heard is more of a room full of sweaty young guys desperate to be traders for ego reasons...
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    Make trading great again.

    You dont know what you're talking about. Please keep talking.
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    Make trading great again.

    Specifically - sell side prop traders. Edit: If you want to help a client by trading with him, getting his trade done, giving him what he wants, while taking on some risk yourself to fill his order, you now have to show, more than ever that you were doing the trade for the client, and not...
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    Make trading great again.

    For sales "trading" I agree, but for actual trading no so much. Currently -smiling and dialing- is compliant. Better to be the phones than the brains - perversely.
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    Make trading great again.

    Hey This is a trading forum Dodd frank made it harder to get and keep a job as a trader in a bank For anyone here who aspires to work as a prop trader in a reputable organisation - rolling back frank dodd is a good thing.
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    Make trading great again.

    Bill to Erase Some Dodd-Frank Banking Rules Passes in House - NYTimes.com https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/business/dealbook/house-financial-regulations-dodd-frank.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&referer=
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    Yahoo Historical Data - Did they change the URL recently?

    I'm using quandl now, and finding it to be more useful than yahoo, because of the the split and divided info. (basket / portfolio trading, long short, snp500 universe).
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    What had trading done for and to you?

    Motivated me to do a applied finance graduate degree - which has made a big difference.
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    Re: IB EOD history data

    just21 - have you thought about adding 's' to your http? :P :P :P
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    The futures are in a free fall

    Then punters long gamma Dealers short gamma And we've got vol again off the delta adjustments.
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    Yahoo Historical Data - Did they change the URL recently?

    Tell them at add an 's' onto the end of http. Hehehe :-P :-P :-P
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