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    technical knowledge

    I believe you do have to be sponsored. Check out the curriculums of various finance undergrad and grad programs. They'll detail the objectives and books required. This will give you a framework for various areas to focus your interest and you'll have a reading list to go along.
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    Mathematical probability of Trade set up

    Yup, it's about 50% chance it goes up and the other half of the time it goes down.:D ...Andrew Lo did some work on the viability of chart patterns, might be of interest.
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    "Ozark" best series i have seen since breaking bad, any trader will love this.

    Call me old fashioned but I want my sensational crime shows to feel realistic. I think this suffered a similar fate to Breaking Bad. They had to keep expanding the shock factor and by the end of the season the things that happen have grown exponentially worse/shocking compared to how the...
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    IB VXX quotes?

    I'm still having VXX symbol issues...in particular historical data via API. Looks like a description problem with how the symbol exchange is tagged.
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    IB VXX quotes?

    Bid/Ask quotes are coming in. The last price is stuck to yesterday's close, so anyone using the last price won't show a change.
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    Is this strategy marketable?

    Sharpe can be misleading. If he is doing 8% annualized with a max peak to trough drawdown of 1.5% that is really good. I have a feeling that's probably a drawdown value from initial balance. Still good, just much different.
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    Interactive Brokers Master Card

    ...how turn of the century of me, duh.
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    Interactive Brokers Master Card

    This doesn't make any sense at all...I thought traders were supposed to max their credit cards to buy stocks, not use their stocks as collateral for credit. Maybe the answer is to max the cards, buy AAPL, and use the IB Card to pay down the CC balance for the interest rate arb.
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    Brainstorm career options (military to trading)

    I know you said you don't know your sharpe and that's fair, just wanted to give you a little perspective. Given a sharpe of .5 and a 50% vol the risk of ruin has to be 100%. A good exercise might be to calculate what the probabilities of a certain drawdown percentage would be at that vol level...
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    $3k to $1 mil in one year

    Nah, not necessary for 300x returns, just if you want to make real money like 600x returnz.
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    The CFA Is a Scam

    In Canada, they're called CF-EHs. ...
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    So Ameritrade keeps adding bullcrap features but not fixing bugs

    Whenever I open a new position the PL goes negative!
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    SoFi plans to apply for a bank charter in the next month

    "SoFi is a vocal proponent of the potential for online lending to change consumer lending in the U.S. Mike Cagney, founder and chief executive officer, said that his goal is to “kill banks.”"...
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    SoFi plans to apply for a bank charter in the next month

    So SoFi "disrupts" the banking industry by revolutionizing the underwriting and lending process - in reality they take on riskier loans with more lenient requirements, are defaulting at higher than expected rates....and now want to become a bank! I wonder what their motivation is, oh wait, they...
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    Even the Vatican has a startup accelerator now

    Breaking news...those who failed to qualify for first round funding will get an additional 40 days to prove themselves.
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    Revenge of the Humans: How Discretionary Managers Can Crush Systematics

    Agatha is the new latency arb...can you seeee?
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    MQL MT5 - Code

    Cool, thanks for sharing. Nice to see, instead of the usual ET thread.
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    Track Record · Testing my system live

    Sounds doable, should be no problem!
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    What's your "number"?

    Isn't the correct answer "42"?
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    The hacienda hedge

    The premium loss is absolute, they definitely paid that and lost it. Whether it's justified is a different question and we cannot say with certainty. It is possible they lost the premium and saw declines in oil revenue. In fact, given the low delta, it's likely to have occurred any year oil...
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