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    The Netherlands seek to ban advertising in binary options, CFDs

    Customers like these will go back to punting on illegal dog fights.
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    Which Country Punishes Productive People the Most?

    Australia - measured by income tax. Individuals do not pay the payroll tax. Individuals can choose to consume less and pay less consumption tax. There is a compulsory approx 10% retirement contribution. Productive people take home less that 50% of what they earn. Australia - where being...
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    Study: San Francisco has the highest rental prices in the world

    Apologies. Im considering the rough sell side VP+ take home in various cities, rather than the average wage vs ipod/big mac. Yes. Sydney is fantastic for under achievers. Bad if you earn anywhere over 70k. Hurrah socialism.
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    Study: San Francisco has the highest rental prices in the world

    The cost of earning the money is Sydney is the issue. Global base. Uniquely punitive income tax. Takehome is horrible.
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    Goldman's SecDB

    This is like the special Quarts db at another bank The tech / indian staff think it's amazing Damned if it has a use on the desk tho
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    Study: San Francisco has the highest rental prices in the world

    I agree .. and on an after-income-tax basis, Sydney is a disaster. Hong Kong tax = instant payrise.
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    Study: San Francisco has the highest rental prices in the world

    Airbnb - your illegal home away from home.
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    Brainstorm career options (military to trading)

    Start a finance diploma. Price some derivatives. See if you like it / are good at it - psychology ramblings aside.
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    off-site research setup?

    errr - well good to get ahead of it i guess ;)
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    The Megacity Economy: How Seven Types Of Global Cities Stack Up

    This is already happening in South Vietnam, and Bangkok. 20 year olds aspire to live in apartments, and Korean builders (primarily) are constructing them.
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    Looking for seasoned advice on where to begin - API programming

    For a non-programmer, you can do a lot with Excel VBA. It's reasonably powerful for charting / mid level data analysis.
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    How much money do you need to actually move the prices?

    about $50MM-150MM to move most asian cash index closing prices (ex-japan).
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    Statistics Of future trading

    Generally whatever has the cheapest transaction costs, by spread and fees - making CFDs, and bucket shop forex pretty much the worst choice.
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    The Megacity Economy: How Seven Types Of Global Cities Stack Up

    Sell cats to women about to turn 30.
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    off-site research setup?

    Sle -- I have used this before: https://get.gotomypc.com/ It's the old Citrix version of remote access, but for consumers / retail customers. No static IP address needed. - Setup a reasonable server in your basement. - Connect it to your home wifi. - Use your laptop as a dumb terminal...
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    Statistics Of future trading

    Think about which products the majority of stat-arb funds trade, and why.
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    What kind of approach can make you INSANELY rich?

    Billions as-in % net worth uplift? Marry it.
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    Spot-Future parity in KOSPI 200

    You just need to do the work to get divided estimates for all stocks in the index - then do the reasonably simple math to calc the index basket present value. All index trading / program trading / basket trading desks do this, and update it every day. * fine detail would be calculating the...
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    Spot-Future parity in KOSPI 200

    JackRab is right. - Also consider stocks that are in halts due to corporate actions, and their implied re-open price. - Stocks to likely be dropped from the index at any re-balance prior to the futures expiry. ** But forgetting dividends is your main error. If you're arb-ing this, you need to...
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    Facing Immigration Crackdown, Silicon Valley Rethinks Its Dreams

    Zactly. These are not the guys you go to a bar with, to pickup chicks. STEM is social poison.
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