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    "91% Asset Plunge" of an ETF, How Exactly Does It Work?

    I don’t think they can do it with arrk. I think arrk is actually a closed end fund which is like a mutual fund that trades on the open market. You can’t create/redeem it for the underlying basket
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    RH Pro customer Letter

    Ajacobson is definitely not trading on RobinHood
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    RH Pro customer Letter

    oh yeah. you are right. that's a ton of orders.
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    Amazon More Than Doubles Corporate Employees' Base Salary Cap to $350K

    I’m shocked that the max base wage was not over 300k to begin with. Surely there are lots of people at Amazon with 500k salaries
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    RH Pro customer Letter

    20 orders/day? That’s reasonsble
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    Some traders statistics about prop firms

    totally agree. But for the trader profitability is his only concern and he has a lot of hurdles to overcome in this scenario. I would say that any trader who walks down this path is by definition a bad trader.
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    Bill Ackman Scored on Pandemic Shutdown and Bounceback

    no. only that he claims he started buying after the 20% selloff. but in fairness to the OP, it doesn't mean he didn't have shares before. It also doesn't mean he wasn't selling after he made the statement.
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    Bill Ackman Scored on Pandemic Shutdown and Bounceback

    what a fucking loser. hes only up 10% higher than where he bought it 10 days ago.
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    PTON

    Pton is a very tricky situation. They define the new world of fitness and the market cap is only 9bn. That’s tipping money for potential suitors.
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    Some traders statistics about prop firms

    Those who survive those tests have an edge that specifically works for those constraints. That's really tough. I'm pretty sure I couldn't pass the test and most people would call me a good trader, though i'm probably not as good as those people think i am.
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    Seeking recommendations for local/stoch vol libraries

    there are probably studies about this. if you look up trinomial pricing models or binomial pricing models you might find something. The firm i was at spent years building a trinomial pricing model with jumps. Honestly I don't it gave us any better understanding of listed options than a simple...
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    Some traders statistics about prop firms

    One of the fox bucket shops shared their users stats (by law they had to) and it was like 2percent are profitable in a given month and every month it’s a different 2percent. not quite the like the line from Rounders “how come the same ten guys make it the final table every year?”
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    Seeking recommendations for local/stoch vol libraries

    So you want to do this in other to determine what the option will be worth after a spot move? In my opinion no matter what you will have to do an adjustment based on whether your option chain is sticky delta or sticky strike.
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    Implied distributions

    If you are using listed butterflies then you are limited to the strikes that exist. if you are using fictitious butterflies, you might as well use N(d2)
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    Seeking recommendations for local/stoch vol libraries

    why would you do this? i think this only has value if you are pricing otc options where you have to take a listed surface and extrapolate vol data points for a myriad of different types of options (for example pricing down var of the value of a forward starting option that crosses an event...
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    Some traders statistics about prop firms

    especially in forex where there is likely no edge unless you are a true macro trader taking positional bets.
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    Bogus buyout announcements

    theres some fact in the rumor. Amazon probably has approached pton
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    Bogus buyout announcements

    a banker leaking the discussions to get market feedback.
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    Bogus buyout announcements

    has it been proven false
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    Money management business paradoxes

    there’s a difference between trading and investing. And investing in other managers is a different skill set all together.
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