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Dealmaker, thanks for making ET a better place, I appreciate your contributions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/millennium-is-said-to-shut-down-pioneering-quant-hedge-fund-firm Does anyone know what their performance was over time/since inception including recent years?

Yeah, I think investors are figuring that one out big time... https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-shrinking-hedge-fund/

Actually that's notwithstanding the fact that many of them lost their investors' money, not to mention those who walked away without honor, having taken 2 and 20 for market-like returns in most cases… and sub-market returns in others... (Mindich, Burbank, Tilson, Perry, Chriss, Novogratz...

Seems like almost all of the GS alumni and a majority of Ivy League pedigreed managers who opened up hedge funds have bitten the dust...

all I know is that the quant bubble mushroom blow up is gonna be spectacular, ~ sometime in next 1-3 years...

last time it was US banks. this time can it be european banks?...

Marty Schwartz and Linda Raschke are the only two who were able to sustain things? The Shoenfeld quote suggests that the days of tape reading stocks are over...

Thanks much Matt. It's interesting that it appears that for the small retail trader, the service (executing fills/platform) seems quite standardized across different FCMs, a good thing looks like. By the way, great job on helping traders out there get a sense of what platform is available with...

the market has 1,000 faces... but yes, she does not change

So you mean you can left click on the x (time) axis, and resize by dragging and same for y (price) axis?

It still is, I'd say the best in its price range... just a shame they couldn't expand it to work with more brokers' feeds

Hi Arnie, you been arounds for a while huh, my respects to you market veteran. Re IB charts, can you play around with the chart like you can using TradingView say? https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=NASDAQ:AAPL see how you can scrunch up or expand the chart by left clicking and dragging...

Hi all, I like the Ensign charting platform for the main reason that it lets me adjust the width and height of my chart on the go. When I checked out Sierra Charts a while back I don't think that option was there. It's a surprising thing, even some higher end platforms like Eikon don't let you...

Thanks much Mark. Advantage Futures and Dorman are the only 2 smaller type names that are members of the CME.... If anyone has experience trading with these two relative to other brokers, would be great to hear your evaluation

Thanks Mark. Off the top of your head would you know which of the popular brokers (IB, Amp, Optimus etc) are members of the CME?

Hi Bob, Thanks. On 1 and 2, FuturesMag says: "By having your trading account at a firm that is both a broker/dealer and an FCM, you can transfer funds between your futures account and your securities account. By transferring funds to a securities account, those funds then fall under the...

Hi SML, indeed, good thing to remember MF Global and PFG Best. What's the deal with FDIC insurance? Are clearing FCM's the only ones to have access to it via securities accounts?

When thinking about selecting a retail broker, what are the top 5-10 questions one should ask? Here are some that I've thought of, but by all means, please chime in. 1. Is the broker FCM clearing or non-clearing FCM? 2. Does the above matter? 3. What is its business record with the NFA? 4...

does anyone know what Omega's returns were like in the last 5 years?