Search results

You know what Google is, right? Find out for yourself. You've already been shown far more courtesy than you ever deserved.

A lot of what you're seeing is just due to the difference in sizes of the options prices and the resulting width of bid/ask. If you assume boxes are riskless trades, then the difference in strikes, minus the put spread "value", must equal the call spread "value". So selling a 20 pt call...

You're completely making my point while thinking you're doing the opposite. Unless I'm misreading you, you're saying they're paying the fine without admitting guilt but they actually sent tons of messages on purpose. Sorry, but that's a joke. CSFB is a top-tier algo shop: they make a LOT of...

Sure. But the referred-to authors don't. The amount of disinformation, fake expertise, and unsubstantiated accusations/allegories/hints cross well into negligence territory. NxCore is well spoken of. With all those brains and all that data, why don't they ask someone who knows wtf their...

Anyone who finds that crap "informative" deserves what they get. Truly amazing stuff. Pointing to USA Today as further evidence or traction of some kind? Nowhere a mention of the correlation between range/volatility, trading volumes, and quote traffic. Of COURSE there were huge quote...

How many financial analysts have you not hired at your trading house? Being able to program, do math, and have real financial knowledge is a hell of a lot more important than it used to be. Here's your first lesson about the markets, kid: like politics, everyone's an expert, including the...

Go to GE. Learn. Meet people. Then go get a grad degree in what you figure out you're actually interested in. The same opportunities, or better, will present themselves. You can get a job as a trader when you're 50 if you still want to. I started my career at one of the elite trading...

You must be retarded or something. I'll stop making fun of you, I feel kinda bad. Look around at my other posts--might give you a bit of perspective on your assumptions.

Obfuscation? Your "source" for "data" is the guys at Themis. Funny enough, I was out to dinner last night with two guys who worked with the Themis guys in the mid '90s at Instinet and are still close with them. The Themis guys deserve a lot of credit for some great marketing; I'm sure their...

You should stay drunk. The excuse will come in handy. The very fact that you think there's any value in "realtime calls" puts you squarely in Clown Territory. Think about it: what's the value to the poster of that? Ego. No interest here, I actually have a business to run.

This happens all the time, and different exchanges handle it in different ways. It's common practice in HFT to use many separate logins/sessions to a given exchange, and with many different trades looking at some of the same assets (think of the number of things that run off ES or SPY or...

Yet another quality post! You must have 10000 of these by now.

This deserves to be kept around for when you inevitably are banned or just slink off to a new nickname. Not only do you continuously spew gibberish, you do it while your position in the market weakens. I thank you, though. You are a good reminder of the fact that there is still plenty of edge...

Good god, this thread actually got worse.

Banana Crumb Muffins INGREDIENTS: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 bananas, mashed 3/4 cup white sugar 1 egg, lightly beaten 1/3 cup butter, melted 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1/8...

There is a real threat of congress implementing some idiotic regulation that sounds nice to the ignorant masses, such as data speed bumps, tforced limit order freezes, and the like. It would be prudent for all of us, me included, to direct our criticisms at the exact issues in the marketplace...

This is a fantastic summary of exactly what is wrong with our current regulatory structure. Agreed. There's some cleanup that needs to be done (as I've said I think flash, internalization, and dark pools should be gotten rid of altogether--one simple rule: bids and offers get posted), the...

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Wait... because you have the same opinion as most right now and you've got some kind of magic Fibonacci line drawing tool, you're a lion? I just want to make sure I understand.

Yes.