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    Need Advice

    I worked in a kitchen as a teenager....I never send anything back.
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    Is a Bloomberg/Reuters terminal still worth it now that social medias exist?

    When I subscribed in 2003, you had to sign a 2 year contract. Not sure if this still applies.
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    My Merger Arbitrage Journal

    That is spec, not arb.
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    My Merger Arbitrage Journal

    Arbitrage requires both a long and a short.
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    How can you not trace a 900 point Flash Crash//Monday 3 PM

    Short answer for what happened.....complacency.
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    Trading Strategy for Black Swan?

    What black swan?
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    2018 - 8 Future Basket Trading Journal

    I agree. But its also easily applied and not prone to overfitting.
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    2018 - 8 Future Basket Trading Journal

    Margin rates include volatility of the underlying.
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    2018 - 8 Future Basket Trading Journal

    A fixed dollar stop across contracts with wildly different notional values and volatilities seems inaccurate to me. You might try using a percentage of of each contracts margin requirement which encompasses both values and has the added benefit of being already calculated by the exchanges.
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    Has anyone heard about Pinkdate?

    You don't seem to understand the meaning of solicitation. You don't go to jail for paying for sex, which is why marriage is still legal.
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    ZN ZB and NOB spread

    I'm trading bonds myself now. FGBL, ZN and ZB. ED's are just too quiet.
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    ZN ZB and NOB spread

    I'm an old school Eurodollar spreader. A fly is 1:2:1. He can use TN in place of ZN to have a better duration dispersion. If you decide to change the ratios, I'd recommend that you trade them as 2 separate spreads.
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    ZN ZB and NOB spread

    Bloomberg has it as 4ZF-5ZN+1ZB
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    Comfortable and egronomic yet priced right (less than $500) chair for trading

    Try to find a used Herman Miller Aeron. Mine is 11 years old and looks brand new. It's my one piece of gear I wouldn't give up.
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    Jon Corzine's new hedge fund

    He used customer funds as a free call option.
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    Jon Corzine's new hedge fund

    The money wasn't "found". What happened is that the assets (mainly European Sovereign Bonds) went up during the bankruptcy and the trustee went into a slow liquidation mode. Things could have easily gone the other way. He had the two greatest American get out of jail free cards. He was a former...
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    1.8% Profit per Day Compounded over 220 Days

    What's the point of conflating trading a small account with a large one? It doesn't make you a genius to point out that it's impossible to make 1%/day on a billion. I know many guys who have been making 100% plus on sub $100k accounts for 20 years. But their accounts never grow. They are...
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    Where do you get analysis of fundmental events?

    Don't be long bonds the day it passes.
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    Chicago Futures Trader Charged with Causing $13 Million in Losses from Fraudulent Trading Scheme

    In the old days of the "Brazilian" trade, the clearers risk equaled your gain.
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