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Sell banks, sell retail discretionary stocks, overweight the index remainder, think about selling some index futures here and there as punts.

+1. Totally agree with this. Everything post C++ started as a subset of C++, then clumsily tried to add the missing features back in, sometimes with different names and always with sillier and more ambiguous syntax, as well as yet more ways of monkeying with managed heaps. Learn C++. You...

Safe as houses.

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negative dividend?

+1 Sometimes a wonder why banks don't just fire their whole tech departments, because, as I see it, maybe 80% of the stuff that matters in a markets environment is done on the desktop. (Serious post).

short dated OTM options on futures

Do you think that will run into any "curve fitting" issues?

Perhaps start by listing your thoughts on the hedge ratio that makes it "perfect".

I think that might be John Galt .. you goose :p Maybe double check that one.

Unless they are punters. Then you can pitch them all kinds of dog ship..and they lap it up like crack, until they zero themselves out. Degenerates..

I think the landscape has moved on a bit from there. It's more like trying to fabricate a silicon chip in your garage, imo. Need scale to justify the cost of tooling up.

Welcome to EliteCoder. Please stay on topic. Coding only. Post related to trading are not in the spirit of this blog.

Too distracted by the "coolness" of tech to think about the actual making-the-money part. Just send it all to Hyderabad.

+10, nicely done. A lot of realities captured there buddy.

I'll spell it out: traders don't care about or reward anything in unix-land, regardless of whether that real-time code makes the core of their P/L. It only matters if they can see it (GUI / Excel), and they talk to the developer day to day. No UI, and no spreadsheet, then it's just another...

Yeah, similar personal experience. Just sayin that the Unix / Java guys are technically better, but economically and strategically worse off than the VBA / Microsoft guys. Have been on both sides of that fence.

With reference to the arguments above, I would like to answer the OP's question again. Generally: 1. The C++, Linux, Java guys are smarter & better engineers. 2. The Windows, .NET, VBA guys earn more money, while doing less work. If you prefer to be in the back room working with...

Interesting thread, and the answer is probably "it depends". If you want to hitch your wagon to engineering (whatever that means these days) then Java / C++ is probably the go & Linux. If you're a bit more people oriented, it's .Net, VBA, Excel & Windows. Other than the 1 or two gurus...