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    How to find an edge ?

    what would be useful is if someone curates and summarizes exchange/sef/ecn (worldwide) trader incentive offerings. Those are sometimes quite valuable
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    IQFeed Trade Conditions

    its in opra spec A CANC Transaction previously reported (other than as the last or opening report for the particular option contract) is now to be cancelled. B OSEQ Transaction is being reported late and is out of sequence; i.e., later transactions have been reported for the particular option...
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    2.5M considered wealthy

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-21/how-money-do-i-need-to-be-rich-americans-say-it-takes-2-5-million o_O
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    We need some re-naming of things

    always wondered why hand signals at CME were called arbing
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    How big is x1 day S&P 500 E-Mini data file for tick (L1) and LOB (L2)

    cme sample https://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/datamine-historical-data/files/xcme_md_es_fut.gz ditto to databento. probably easier/cheaper
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    Traders that lie about their income

    how do we know this is not a lie?
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    Please help me answer the 4 IB functions.

    the python lib that IB provides shows you how to get realtime data. ib_insync allows you to get realtime data. If you cannot read the repo how will you write the code?
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    Traders that lie about their income

    what's your income?
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    Article is spot on....work from home needs to be banned..

    What's the alternative? I think you either have cities or country; suburbs are the worst of both. Convenience of city life is pretty good.
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    Article is spot on....work from home needs to be banned..

    Depends on the job and company. For a startup I think onsite is critical. For a large firm remote workers do nothing but they probably did nothing when onsite. I quit a job because it was hybrid and I could walk there, still not worth it
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    How Millionaire Bankers Actually Work

    My first interview out of school , the guy said yeah we will piggyback larger clients. Wow
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    How Millionaire Bankers Actually Work

    Agreed. All the "trading" against clients can and probably already had been done. I spoke to a few big banks and they said we want to reduce headcount. This was 5+ years ago
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    What are you presently reading?

    Rereading Influence psychology of persuasion
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    how do you think like a trader?

    same as a gambler. put a value on something and if you can buy it for less or sell it for more then do it
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    Please help me answer the 4 IB functions.

    https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync/tree/master
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    Google Breakup Now a Reality

    depends on the job and pay. I will say RSUs and vesting is garbage
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    How to trade relative-value realised-volatility?

    well, otc var swaps. can be long or short term. probably easier just bet someone. put money in an escrow that releases upon maturity and realized vol. can be done through smart contract on chain (woohoo, a use case for crypto :D)
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    Google Breakup Now a Reality

    I do appreciate how they try to poach people. A few times over the years I searched for something and a linux-like shell popped up and said "We like the way you think" and asked if I wanted to do a puzzle. https://foobar.withgoogle.com/
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    How to trade relative-value realised-volatility?

    otc variance
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