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    Are trends just self fulfilling propecy?

    paint the tape and spoof
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    Citadel Securities Crafts Plan to Shake Up Banks’ Trading Desks

    is this the same as "execution services" that many firms provide?
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    A Retail's Day Trading Experiment

    you can try to work out the possible paths or use a binomial distribution
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    VaR or other Risk Measures for heavily skewed trades?

    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/exploring-the-potential-of-synthetic-data-in-trading-strategies.379959/page-2#post-5981012 you can do anything. given your portfolio what-if scenarios can be run. so, you have portfolio...what-if fedfunds goes up 25 basis points
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    VaR or other Risk Measures for heavily skewed trades?

    shock or bump parameters/curves and see results. it used to take a long time to run. if you have the data you can use historical var.
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    Can anyone be my trading mentor? (short term trading)

    isnt that the definition of survivorship bias? the OP is named survivor
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    what services are actually useful( what information i should be looking at when trading)

    these are good. all free https://cmegroup-sso.quikstrike.net/ https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates.html#tools https://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/quikstrike/pricing-volatility-strategy-tools.html https://www.atlantafed.org/cenfis/market-probability-tracker
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    How Institutions trade

    I see profit centers and cost centers. these guys are cost centers "Analysts made up of Economists, Accountants, Finance specialists, Industry experts". handing off to a trading department who then do the actual trading might be what outsourced trading involves
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    How can one define chart patterns such as Head & Shoulders?

    they are visually "discovered" after they happen. maybe you can compute local maxima/minima over a period and see if peaks/troughs are within a certain threshold level of one another
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    Can anyone be my trading mentor? (short term trading)

    no, sent a pm. part of salibaco
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    Can anyone be my trading mentor? (short term trading)

    no one mentioned an internship. try to get one. email all the people responding to RFQs; they're usually listed on the exchange site. there was a place called international trading institut a long time ago; many option firms used it for education. also, know thyself you're probably the same as...
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    Old School FX Traders Are Being Replaced By Algos With Names Like Viper

    was the article from 15+ years ago?
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    Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks

    Anecdotal evidence. I did a year in London while in college and as a habitual nose picker I produced the blackest boogers imaginable. Probably not good for the planet. Tasted the same
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    Can anyone be my trading mentor? (short term trading)

    If you're not going to a top US school or are not exceptionally bright I would go to school in a foreign country. Even if you don't graduate you stand out and probably learn/grow more. As far as what you wrote about support resistance RSI... I never saw that in the real world.
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    More than 50 percent of America's wealthiest cities are in California.

    Article says 150k/yr for a family is affluent which is odd. Also, California has a ton of government workers making way more than that. The dodger baseball player was smart to take deferred compensation to avoid taxes.
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    Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks

    For all you climate change deniers I am working on a theory hoping to get published. During the pandemic people wore masks which inhibited normal breathing resulting in excess air swallowing. That swallowed air resulted in excess flatulence released into the atmosphere. End result, climate...
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    Biden medical emergency on AF1?

    Anyone who's been around old people know the sequence. Ask the same thing again and again Sleep majority of the day Crap themselves Get a call from someone saying "if you want to see old person do it now because they won't last a week" They stop eating They stop
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    Trading Challenges

    My tolerance of pnl swings is too wide for a granny portfolio
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