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I worked at a hedge fund for the past year, and am starting at an investment bank in 2 weeks. I'm trying to figure out whether I'm getting underpaid or not.

I'd like to see a breakdown of what kind of salary/bonuses people get for various jobs (also by years experience) at hedge funds or investment banks. Sites like salary.com are useless, because they give industrywide averages for most positions, which have no correlation w/ compensation at...

20 / 10 LoLs :D

you can't seriously be complaining about having to do 2 logins a day? Sure, you can go pay another broker a lot more money, and they'll give you one fucking login instead of 2. Tradestation charges a TON more then IB. Double for equities (1c / share instead of .5), and almost 1.5x for...

The thing I'm wondering is.. which share count are the analysts using to estimate earnings, and which share count is being used to report earnings? As we all know, there's been a shitload of dilution between the beginning of the year and now.

First off, if you're contemplating changing careers because your wife isn't happy w/ 160K / year, tell the cunt to get her own fucking job and make her own fucking money. Now, if you can find a job working for a hedge fund or whatever to do the trading for, then by all means, go for it. If...

If you're under 100K, you shouldn't bother pricing parking for a car, you won't have a car. Trust me, it's for the best. If you work in manhattan and live in manhattan, it's NOT WORTH HAVING A CAR, all it's going to do is cost you $500 a month for parking and insurance and you'll get very...

You got 3 yrs experience, and want to work for a NYC IB for under 100K? I got 1 yr experience and have offers from hedge funds/IBs for 80K for tech positions (the one I'm trying to take right now is for arbitrage technology), and that money's barely enough, and I'm single. (And I'm...

With a statement as stupid as that, you've just proven why nobody will back you for free.

this is also really suspicious: http://highlandstonecapital.com/tradingsystem.aspx Anyone who can call signals that damn good won't be giving you 80% of the profit to trade em. And yeah, the contact us page is sketchy too, any real financial firm w/ a website will list the address of...

Fuck e-trade. They're a shitty brokerage w/ rip-off commissions and a pain in the ass to get privileges to risk YOUR OWN MONEY. Just go to interactive brokers if you want to trade all option strategies, they won't give you this "level" crap for options. (btw, I opened an account at...

If you have to pay $1500 for a 2 day "training" course, then it's a scam. You can't learn how to trade fx in 2 days, at least not profitably. The whole thing sounds suspicious as hell.

This thread is retarded.

You're a bit late. The infomemo was released by the occ a long time ago.

Fine, let's assume he's long the front month, short the back month, which means he wants extreme volatility before the front month expires. By expiration of the front month: If the market stays flat, his vertical spread may have a profit or a loss, depending on many factors. If the...

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Ok, in that case you found a perfect arbitrage. Short the call calendar, long the put calendar. Let us know how that works out for you. (I'm being sarcastic just in case you didn't realize). You obviously don't know shit about how options and futures work.

To the OP, your strategy is flawed. I'm assuming you're shorting the back month and going long the front month for the calendar spread, then you're shorting a vertical call spread (so you're short the lower strike and long the higher strike). Tomorrow, the stock spikes 50%. You now have...

There's so much misinformation here, and so many people who clearly don't know shit.

Look, unless you go to a shop that's unlicensed, you're not getting lower then the EXCHANGE MANDATED MINIMUM MARGIN. Even members of the exchange have to cough up that margin.