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    Could anybody give some pointers about how to replicate an Forward Vol Agreement?

    Yeah I saw your pdf file there but I couldn't figure out how to adapt it to other asset classes...
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    Could anybody give some pointers about how to replicate an Forward Vol Agreement?

    I am really trying to achieve these... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24601&perpage=6&pagenumber=1
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    Could anybody give some pointers about how to replicate an Forward Vol Agreement?

    Could anybody give some pointers about how to replicate an Forward Vol Agreement? Thanks a lot!
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    Does anybody know how to download the news items on Bloomberg?

    just wanted to do some text analysis... thanks a lot!
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    Does anybody know how to download the news items on Bloomberg?

    Just want to try some textual analysis... thanks!
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    Opening range breakout in new electronic markets

    Is your article out?
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    Mean reversion. To be, or not to be ...

    Are you using that strategy? How is it?
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    Mean reversion. To be, or not to be ...

    What's a typical mean-reverting strategy? Anybody could elaborate a bit? Thanks!
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    Hedge Fund Returns for 2010

    what strategies do they use? calmar ratio =2 is a fair number
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    how to do judge the degree of data-mining/over-fitting in a strategy?

    I agree. I do believe RenTec hire those PhD Quants to do data-mining, curve-fitting and optimization. So there must be a place for these techniques. It's about how one uses these judiciously and control for the downside. They must have a good framework or process control. Forward...
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    Business models of prop-shops?

    I myself am doing fine. Being short term profitable, I don't want to "brag" about anything because my short profitable trading career means nothing in the long term. And I have nothing to brag about. But I am clueless about running prop-shop from a business point-of-view. (it's because...
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    Critical process/components for building bullet-proof high speed trading systems

    as you know the QA simulator exchange is crappy and you often need to massage the "send-trades-out" function in order to get a test trade filled... then when we turn back to real-exchange, we somehow changed the code, etc. so that happened... that's why we are asking for better process...
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    Business models of prop-shops?

    yeah I have experience in trading and I am actively trading everyday...
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    Business models of prop-shops?

    Okay please compare the cost and return of the two models. I don't rule out possibility of launching a nail salon or massage salon if it's more profitable...
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    Critical process/components for building bullet-proof high speed trading systems

    Alright, lets admit that we don't have control over those. We have to act within an existing framework that we inherit. Any more thoughts?
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    how to do judge the degree of data-mining/over-fitting in a strategy?

    NASDAQ has dynamic weights. And you take those weights, and then do some math, and you get your new weights, your new weights are "dynamic" because of they inhere the "dynamics" of the NASDAQ...
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    how to do judge the degree of data-mining/over-fitting in a strategy?

    Okay, at the EOD of every day, I get a realized PNL which is a realization of a random variable. Collecting 10yrs of such numbers I get 2500 realizations of one distribution. And I can plot the empirical distribution for that random variable. But how does "stationarity" come into play...
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    Business models of prop-shops?

    Come on, lets focus on the good ones. Not the cheating ones...
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    Hedge Fund Returns for 2010

    What's "Ray Dalio's 'zen' approach to an investment firm"? Somebody please shed some lights?
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    Business models of prop-shops?

    Hi folks, I am seriously thinking of launching a prop-shop... Can somebody please shed some lights on the business model and economics of running a prop-shop...? And how to set up such a shop? Thank you!
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