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I don't agree with the 70%. The federal reserve system benefits the investor class at the expense of the saving class. Regular people are being screwed and they should be very, very vocal.

Everyone knows the problem with poor people. I know some really ridiculously rich people who travel all the time. I ask myself, "What economic function or purpose does this person have that makes them so much better or wealthier than me?" And nine times out of ten, they just knew someone...

I have the same problem and wonder if I am truly worthless outside the direction of others.

Article is sensationalist crap or a marketing ploy. Go look at RICK vs the S&P 500 on Yahoo Finance.

I've always wondered just how much of an insider Mack is. He really pulled some magical shit out of his ass when he got that Japanese bank to come in and bail Morgan out. What's the dirt on this guy, exactly?

ARCA and BATS flush your orders for you when you disconnect, if you connect to them directly. Part of their compliance/conformance test.

... in the world of equity derivs... had a layoff a while back, new guy became manager... dude sucks, I don't even want to go to work anymore. I'm just fighting through because of the bad economy. Ugh.

Security guards, or NYPD?

Unfortunately, this garbage is thrown around as an introductory text-book. Awful.

Just curious how others manage their lifestyles. Sometimes, I am just too drained after work to work on anything. Too risky to work on anything large-scale while at work, and weekends are a toss-up.

What I need is a data-collection setup that can archive and track information coming out of NYSE OpenBook Ultra or NASDAQ ITCH. A pure feed, sort of what like they have over at NYSE, but for $750 a month on their FTP data. A lot of data providers filter/modify and adjust the original source...

You're right. It's because there's some math elitism. You would not believe the variety in terms of clarity for graduate level statistics and econometrics books. Some authors just flat out don't write stuff that makes sense in a clear and concise way. If you read some of the books on...

Anyone blackboxing out of this firm? What's the avg latency and round-trip time on an order pushed out to the NYSE? Their info on the website has to be totally outdated.

I'd be happy with e-signal and retail/home setups, if I could just get exchange time stamps on the quotes and time of sale. E-signal only goes to second-level resolution. I wish they'd preserve the exchange time stamps on messages so I could backtest correctly. I called Xasax. They can get...

I tried to chat one up and asked her whether they were placed there recently, because I hadn't seen them before. Something's up. I'm kind of paranoid, but I didn't see any e-mails come out from the operations desk about any increased armed presence or anything above and beyond the usual...

I'm just going off of the other thread here about OpenTick. How much per month is colocation at Xasax? I tried calling their sales desk at 4:30 today, and no one picked up. (Seriously. 4:30PM EST? After the close? Who runs a business where they don't answer the phone at 4:30?) What...

Just exercise. I'm one of those fat idiots who goes through cycles of weight gain and weight loss, because of dramatic shifts in lifestyle. The best, most motivated I ever felt was when I exercised for 3 hours a day every day and spent a half-hour in a dry-sauna ever night. I'm a fat...

Off of Yahoo -- On the 18th, this gets completed: * Holders of 15.2 million shares elected to receive the dividend all in shares. * Holders of 193.6 million shares elected to receive the dividend all in cash and will receive $0.0971 per share in cash (10.8%) and $0.8029 per share in...

His explanation assumes they are running index arbitrage strategies. In today's market, it depends on what index/etf you are running those arbitrage games on. If you think you can play arbitrage games using the S&P500 indexes, you are going to need transaction times of under 1ms, colocation...

Why? Faster transaction times without being knocked out of the queue when providing liquidity? I'm running a high-freq sub-second arb strat at the moment, but I'm removing liquidity. Are you suggesting other players are sitting there offering liquidity in various locations in anticipation...