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    The Gazillion dollar standoff over two HFT towers

    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.
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    Remote Traders With Live Track Record Seeks Backing/Prop Firms

    The stuff you do, is it primarily systematic?
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    The Gazillion dollar standoff over two HFT towers

    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.
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    Remote Traders With Live Track Record Seeks Backing/Prop Firms

    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.
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    Wealth-Lab Creator Has New Site

    Interesting. Not interesting enough to subscribe, but interesting enough to read a description when I get home.
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    Wealth-Lab Creator Has New Site

    Is it a long-only system?
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    Grantham on CNBC today

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    Hedge Fund Tosses Family That Controls Maker of OxyContin

    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...
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    The Making of A Navy SEAL

    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...
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    Wealth-Lab Creator Has New Site

    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.
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    The Making of A Navy SEAL

    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.
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    Has any of you ACTUALLY made more money from so called alternative data?

    Yup. There are some very interesting datasets out there that definitely have alpha, mostly by commercial vendors but some are free.
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    How to adjust / calculate Volatility for option valuation when underlying gaps up/down?

    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...
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    JPMorgan Pulls Crop Brokers From Chicago Options Trading Floor

    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.
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    JPMorgan Pulls Crop Brokers From Chicago Options Trading Floor

    You do realize that not every crop is a grain, right?
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    Delta Hedged Put Butterfly - The road to 50% APY

    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?
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    Unorthodox legal ways to gain an edge

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

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