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As the focus recently is on Executive pay, bailouts, corporate greed etc, I'm not sure the focus will chance to HFT and the money they steal. The people at Occupy Wallstreet identify themselves as the 99%. They dont have any money. They dont have any investments. They dont care what the market...

Can anyone share information about the specifics of getting a Prime Brokerage account to participate in CDS contracts that are OTC? What companies to contact? Their requirements? Thanks

Can you name stocks that hold a large number of JGB's or queue their cost of capital off the rates of JGB's? Thanks

"Ayn Rand's monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal." - Rotten Tomatoes

Dont most people in the US spend all their income? If you therefore spend 33% of your gross income on mortgage payments at 66% on consumption, isnt the savings on the 66% offsetting the 33% mortgage service?

the preferreds are going nuts too

Lots of traders I know started off with some sort of silly strategy or idea that worked. Either they figured it out, or worked at a prop shop that taught it. They then parlayed that success into real success by refining their game over and over again continously. From what I have observed its a...

Everyone in Africa is young because they get murdered, raped and/or die of starvation and AIDS. Everyone in Western society is older because great healthcare, peace, ample food, and education keeps the life expectancy higher. The countires in the middle seem to be the emerging, developing...

see my post above.....

This is something I always wanted to know too. With all the talk about free money JVC, Bob not taking a trading loss in 10 years or whatever, and great profitable generic strategies, I just don't get why they dont further internalize and compound the capital they have. Just when you get close to...

WWAYU was like this last week but there is no borrow so who gives a crap.

There are only so many real players in the Canadian prop industry. All the little crap companies are just subs of the main companies. They are either scalping %age off traders, dinking them for fees, or taking advantage of shoestring momma's basement expenses so they can be competitive on...

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Basically Peterffey thinks there should be no naked access where brokers arent pre screening orders for buying power and following all the exchange rules. He thinks they should ban it immediately, and therefore it would shut down HFT, or a lot of it. Manoj Narang thinks everything is fine and...

Peterffey starts at 102:00 for those who care

Is or was? I dont know how connected you are but I am under the impression Swift/Title/Hold are struggling big time because HFT has destroyed CFT (Chinese frequency traders)

Looks like the same old story. Reseller of a bigger name, WTS, Title, Hold, who knows.......... Shoe string budget, steal traders offering higher payouts, act like you are legit and you offer something... blah blah blah. Gets old....

First rule of this market is to buy any panic.

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