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sounds good. I will be in vancouver in early march. So will definitely come to the next one! Thanks.

is the old meetup group still active?

what happened to all the vancouver traders! The last post was in 2007!

Hi, I am moving to Vancouver in a month or so and looking for a place to trade out of around downtown area. Anyone knows a good place or is interested in sharing one? Thanks.

Yeh, surprisingly she's still with me. Although we have been on a shopping spree this year. everything is 1/2 price. Gold/Silver/oil/stocks/real estate..... Just saw an article this morning: GM dealers offering buy 1 car and get one free!! Maybe it's time to get matching his/her hummers. 8-)

1 penny commission?

Good Traders make lousy business persons. That's why I rather trade for myself than opm. Good traders tend to change their views on a dime as they process new information. Business people tend to stick to their one great idea til the very end. Preseverence or "unwillingness to take a loss" is a...

Good luck with your capital raising. It's a long and hard process. It took me more than 6m to find a FOF investor. In general they are more concern about your risk profile and how you handle risk than what your absolute return is. Few other thing to consider: 1) Do you really want to trade...

When you first start out, trade with the best. This is the only way to learn and improve. When you are an experienced trader and your only goal is to make money, trade with the worst. Isn't there an old poker saying that if you can't figure out who's the sucker at the table, you are it.

Truth is unattainable in this world. So be prepared to prove yourself wrong at all times. Read some of the philosophical works by Karl Popper. Basically no one has a monopoly on truth and the only way we gain knowledge is by doing and making mistakes. There's no shame as long as you learn...

Funny how oil jumped the day before Israeli's weekend military strike.

The problem with quants is that they believe you can predict the future using historical data. History never repeats itself the same way. I would like to see more philosophy majors in trading. At least the conversations will be a lot more interesting.

When you have a definable edge, trade and trade big. When you don't, stay out of the market and stay in cash. I am not a big believer of "stock will always outperform cash" theory. Stock market has a higher risk adjusted return. This mean the return is higher and the volatility of the return...

A var swap is just a strip of 1/k^2 vanilla options. So you can theoretically replicate the payoff in the options market. And if you don't mind the path dependency, you can buy some atm straddle and delta hedge to extract volatility.

To answer your questions: 1) volatility trading is very complex. If you are serious, you need to spend a few years understanding and trading vanilla options, then move on to more complex products like VIX and VarSwaps. To trade volatility without any theoretical basis is an invitation to...

Neutrino, I agree with you that markets in general are random. I am new to this forum, but not new to the market. Through almost 15 years of successfully trading, including a few years of running my own HF, I can speculate that markets are 99.9% efficient. The key to trading is to find that...

Hi Nawaralsaadi, How is your experience so far in Vancouver? I am in the process of moving there, from Japan. I have been a professional derivatives trader on the buy/sell side for over 10y and would like to know the trading scene in Vancouver. Are there a lot of experience people...