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LOL indeed. Here is the actual definition of front running: Note the bolded - that's a key aspect of front-running, also known as "non-public material information". In case of HFT, you just need to invest a few dollars to get there, which by definition makes it public.

The stuff you do, is it primarily systematic?

No. He does larger capacity stuff. How is it front running? Nothing prevents you or anyone else from spending money, getting colocated, receiving a microwave feed etc - i.e. getting in the same game.

Something does not compute here, right? By now, you should have the connections to find another gig as well as have enough cash to sit on the beach for a while. Of course, the other opposite is yours truly who is stuck in the office at 3 am on Saturday morning.

Interesting. Not interesting enough to subscribe, but interesting enough to read a description when I get home.

Is it a long-only system?

You are misreading the tea leaves. The web sites for the investment managers are regulated, so they can't put the actual current AUM (or returns or much information at all). Sackler maybe had a few hundred there at most. It's mostly a publicity move by the fund (look how ethical we are, we...

I am not saying that Navy SEALs is a cult, it's just a special forces of the US military. Yes, it's selective but I'd think that almost every country in the world has one which is equally selective. People in the US, however, seem to worship SEALs (with the help of the media, of course). IMHO...

Near death is not after death.

:vomit:

A cursory look is that he's back-testing/forward-testing a strategy on leveraged ETFs and probably does not take borrow rebates or transactions costs into account.

I honestly do not understand the cult of Navy SEAL in the US. What makes these guys so special? There are more videos about how to make it as a SEAL than how to become a neurosurgeon, Olympic athlete or a hedge fund PM.

Yup. There are some very interesting datasets out there that definitely have alpha, mostly by commercial vendors but some are free.

Yeah, there are three usual suspects for vol dynamics. First one is sticky delta where implied volatility for a fixed delta level is assumed to stay constant. It's not really applicable to equities for various reasons. Then there is sticky strike where you assume that implied volatility for a...

Well, ags include anything that is or was alive - plants, cattle, hogs etc). I think Bloomberg journalists were looking for the word "feeds" or something like that.

You do realize that not every crop is a grain, right?

Then you have to answer a few questions first: - What is your motivation/view that you are trying to express? - Are you holding it to expiration or going to exit at a predetermined setup/time?

Oh, trust me - bigger and faster you might not be, but being better than the Citigroup people is not hard.

Why not? I'd say that as hobbies go, active investing is probably one of the better ones.