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    Comprehensive List of Proprietary Trading Firms

    They're in the USA Trading offices at that CBOT. 19A The actual name is The League Corp. http://www.theleaguecorp.com/index.htm
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    How much is the going rate for someone to build a computer?

    Its really not that difficult. Snapping the heatsink on is probably the hardest part and it's not that hard. I also use Crucial brand memory, although I have used Kingston as well. Don't buy generic.
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    How much is the going rate for someone to build a computer?

    I bought an HP once, nothing but problems. Iv'e built 3 computers since then without any issues. The problem with systems from the big companies like Dell and HP are: 1. As mentioned earlier, they don't match mobo, pcu, and memory correctly, causing bottlenecks 2. Eventhough the...
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    Comprehensive List of Proprietary Trading Firms

    Refco (old Mac Futures) used to have a Sydney office, not sure if it's still open TMG is in Sydney
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    Comprehensive List of Proprietary Trading Firms

    a few more for the list TransMarket Group Greenmoor Riverbank League Trading Excel Trading Group
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    ATM straddle vs. delta neutral straddle

    MTE, thanks for answering. Thats pretty much what I would have said. One other point though, I see alot of talk about delta neutral, whats the gamma?, etc.. Do you intend to trade this straddle? Scalp your gammas to recude theta risk? It seems alot of people are getting really tied...
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    ATM straddle vs. delta neutral straddle

    did you check the skew at the time? also, parity does not mean that the ATM puts and calls will trade at the same price. carry is distributed lognormally
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    American vs European Exercise

    You are delivering cash not stock, so the risk is not limited to the cost of the spread. Say the OEX pops 10 points one day, you wake up the following morning to find that you have been assigned on your short call leg and the OEX open 10 points lower. Your long call leg is trading lower...
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    I want to sell an old laptop.

    A low level format writes zeros across the entire surface. You will then need to create partitions and then format (standard high level) the partitions with the FDISK function. You will also need a full version of your OS not just a recovery or upgrade disk.
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    Negative theta?

    Deep ITM european style option will often trade below parity. They price time and vol out of the option to create a negative carry and it rises to parity as expiration approaches.
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    I want to sell an old laptop.

    You don't need to destroy the HD. Run a low level format. It wites zeros across the entire disk. A 20 gig HD takes 3 to 4 hours. Go to the HD maker's website. Almost all have free HD tools you can download including a low level format.
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    Options Spread trade

    Very impressive! Nice clean look. Here's something I put together. However, I'm not a programmer so it's just a spread sheet. I have to make a few small modification to handle options on futures.
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    Options Spread trade

    Wayne, What software package are you using?
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    Can someone take a look at this?

    You're right. That explanation isn't very complete. As the stock rallies from 80 to 84 the 80 call will now have $4 intrinsic value but he doesn't provide enough details. If the stock was at 80 when you paid $2 for the 80 call then you paid all time/vol premium. If we assume it is now...
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    Someone's reading my Yahoo Mail

    http://www.download.com/Free-Keylogger/3000-2162_4-10593097.html?tag=lst-0-10
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    Delta and probability question

    delta and probability will have absolutely nothing to do with each other. :-) [/B] Finally !!! Someone actually said it. I was going crazy reading through this thread, although Spike500 gave a good explanation as well. Think of delta as the number of shares the contract currently...
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    IB Margin on Iron Condors

    Mostly Institutional but there is a retail division. Looks like they require $5 mil equity.
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    IB Margin on Iron Condors

    Fimat has it now
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    Help with Visual basic for excel

    I've done this with cell formulas but as osorico said, it requires a whole lot columns, one for each possible row entry. I'm looking forward to seeing the macro as well. Thnx
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    IB Margin on Iron Condors

    You'd have to talk to them. I would imagine that, once you put on the second spread, their system would pair up the entire position and recognize it as a condor.
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