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    Luck? or a good system?

    I could probably answer better if I knew what the 3 signals were :p
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    Cme - Income Collapses 42% -

    I get 10 / 100 as a 10% profit margin. A 5% drop in revenue = 95, and a profit of 9.5 . The drop in profits is 10 - 9.5 = 0.5 As a percentage = 0.5 / 10 = 5%. What am I missing?
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    Short Restrictions and Market Makers

    If the hedge is hard to do, the option price & liquidity reflects it.
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    1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed

    For every IT job posted, there are 1000 CVs from India sent in. All it takes is paper work to import one of these guys, so long as you adequately explain the specialized skill they bring.
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    What are the HFT scum up to?

    Hmm, not really. The quotes I posted were passive, so I'd call it market making. Burger liquidity provision even.
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    What are the HFT scum up to?

    +1
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    Free Shit?

    Eh .. keeps the people who are RECEIVING the free shit off the streets. Enough to not be stealing the rest of my shit anyway.
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    What are the HFT scum up to?

    Nah .. It's more like: - The last burger was bought for $1.00. - You get to the front of the line, and bid $0.99 for the next burger. - The chick at the register gets pissed, she's about to end shift and doesn't have time for this crap. She doesn't want to hold up the line, so...
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    What are the HFT scum up to?

    Some exchanges do, and have always done this. A max messages / second limit. Pretty simple really.
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    What are the HFT scum up to?

    Nanex gets T&S off ticker-tape :o)
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    What are the HFT scum up to?

    A lot of quotes is likely a rounding error, or two algo's leap frogging each other. Rounding: Make a 1c spread. Oops that looks like I made a 0.999c spread. Cancel. OK, make a 1c spread. Repeat. ... Leap forgging: Algo 1: Be the best ask, but only if there's SOMEONE else there...
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    FX is dead. Long live FX!

    Profit share as-in equity. The only way to actually be on the same team. I mean, if your secret sauce is really that special ..
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    Interactive Brokers TWS Bug Thread

    Around 2pm Sydney time, 26/04/2012. Holding 16,053 shares of ASX.AGS LONG. Order to sell all 16,053 at $0.365 Order had worked to the front of the queue [this took a long time]. Now I amend size DOWN to 8,053. [This should not affect queue priority]. The order is suddenly sent to...
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    Ultra-Latency ETF Trade

    Yes. However, success may require you consider some degree of correlation trading. & flat may mean dirty hedged.
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    FX is dead. Long live FX!

    Ah come on. No contract will safeguard your stuff. Profit share is the only way to do it.
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    Dirty (sic) Dispersion!

    LMAO :D
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    FX is dead. Long live FX!

    What's wrong with being a sales trader? Relatively speaking, it's a high margin business :) You're starting to sound like an IT guy. Not that there's anything wrong with that, if you're into that kind of thing.
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    FX is dead. Long live FX!

    With a fragmented and dark FX order book?
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    AutoTrading 500+ instruments

    Similar experience here. Also I don't need a "framework". Off the shelf data connectors yes. Someone else's idea of a platform, hell no.
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