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    FX show in NY

    is <i>anyone</i> going?
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    May was tough even for top traders

    a number of the every day traders I know had a tough time -- the market changed her stripes in may, and it became a new game again. it seemed like a lot of the usual things stopped working. it was a frustrating month all around, it seems. naturally, some people made money. May was good...
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    TT users

    sent you a PM.
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    FX show in NY

    Is that thing going to happen? I never got a confirm on my RSVP and I don't see the banner ad anymore...
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    Bernanke will not raise rates next meeting

    what a useless thread.
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    TT users

    bump, again...
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    NYSE + Euronext done deal

    it's about time. welcome to the 21st century, NYSE. though, I admit, I dread the ramifications for national sovereignty over the next 50 years and beyond...
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    Biggest amount of money won/lost at a prop firm your ever saw

    can't top that. but I did watch a friend drop 115k on the phone.com/software.com merger back in the summer of '00. in about 20 minutes. first trade of the day, too. it was the only time I'd ever seen him sweat.
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    Is Chairmen Bernake Incompetent?

    that's barry bonds, not treasury bonds.
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    former/current Chi Bond traders

    nazz pretty much answered the first question. the next one is, what are the considerations of making a market in a one- or two- tick emarket? where's the edge? if it's a one tick market, do you still make your market 4 or 5 wide, figuring on "noise" to move it around enough?
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    TT users

    I'm experimenting with TT, and need some help writing up an order entry screen based on an index I'd have to calculate. Can anyone provide some insight into this. I was figuring on using Excel, but I suppose I could do something in VBasic.NET. Thx
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    best language for quantiative finance? C, D, Fortran,python etc.

    still? interesting.
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    Why are they building new US car plants?

    'cause someday they'll make nice condos?
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    Is Chairmen Bernake Incompetent?

    hmmm. bonds and greenspan in the same sentence. my money is on greenspan. cult of nothing.
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    former/current Chi Bond traders

    bump...
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    ISE options exchange proposes new, punitive rules for active traders

    exactly. egggg-zactly. and cancellations are a huge lever. recall, nyse traders, how the specialist had what, 2 minutes, to give you the OUT once you hit your cancel button? Two minutes!! How long does it take to move your market have a buck and fill the order? not long at all...
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    Is Chairmen Bernake Incompetent?

    say what you will about Mr. Bernanke. But Bernanke and Cohn together will be unbeatable. fireworks in the offing. this could be the decade of "swing."
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    Unleaded - pit vs emNY?

    try to sell the higher one and buy the lower one. ;)
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    former/current Chi Bond traders

    Anyone on ET traded bonds during the time they went from pit to electronic? Would like to hear what that experience was like.
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    Vonage

    it trades down because it was opened high.
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