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Hello Everyon I want to play the China currency manipulation. It is my thesis that China will be called a currency manipulator for several reasons. If they do become labelled a currency manipulator I believe that gold will have very significant upside. My question is how much if any do you...

Take 10% of that 800K and start there, if you can make it with that 80 thousand you can probably start uping the ante and using more of your money/leverage. Having kids and a wife, you probably want to keep 700K or so sitting around as "just incase money". You obviously have the work ethic so I...

Folks, there is a FREE financial freedom expo coming to a town near you. Clearly we have missed something after trading all these years. Heres the website. http://www.bettertrades.com/ This is for everyone, and we can all trade to the life of our dreams! And if that didn't make you go...

Hello Everyone I have an idea, nothing too special, but I feel that there are probably some massive holes which I am blind to, and will most likely rip me a new one if I do not ask. So I want to extract the Bid/Ask spread on Deep ITM (delta 1) backmonth options, on stocks that are slow moving...

Now we are at 3 points...ok. A bad month, lets say 100 trades(5*20), if you are losing 60% of your trades when first starting off, a very real number possibly, you will be down 40% of that 10K. Now, do that 2 months in a row, you are left with 2K, I would call destroying 80% of your acc in 2...

The house always wins, and people like you are the reason for it, you do not understand that there are times to increase sizing, let winners run, cut lose early etc. 50/50 win/lose with a 1:1 payout, plus commision=death.... slow and painful death, a 1000 cuts as said before.

Yea I know we can't place them, i was wondering who can, because when you look at T&S tick data you see so many amazing .0001/.0099 fill, the type of fills, (10000 shares on the right side when the market is moving) that make you drool.

so essentially it is the MM who can make those price. I would put that in the category of flash order. Really appreciate the response.

Hey guys, the title explains all of it, when looking at stocks that have massive volume, I see many .0001 fills or .0099 fills. Is there a particular exchange or are they all intrafirm trade type things? I understand it is a massive edge and you may not want to say it here, I accept that. Thanks

Thanks for the advice, I figured as much. I don't have a licenese as it is Canada and I'm a researcher. I didn't have any contract to sign as it was through my co-op department at school.

thanks guys that makes my life simple.

Hello I just landed an internship with a great mutal fund company here in Canada. I also am in the process of finalizing a prop trading agreement where they will automate my main strategy. The strategy works out to about .15% EV with a 20:1 win/loss ratio one or twice a day on about 150K. So...

Ok, so lets make some assumtions, first off, the flashorders are a heck of a lot more prevelent on stocks like this. Also, there will be a ton of prints for 1.0201, and 1.0301, as those can be internal trades within an organization or flash orders that you cannot touch. The queue is based upon...

IMO, 2 issues, but could be good 1. The cost of trading subdollar stocks, and the small spreads that they have, subdollar you are looking at hundreds of a cent. Yahoo rounds. Your cost on both sides of the trade will destroy a lot of the profits. You will need to make a cent on 2000+ shares...

I think that a lot of people have misconceptions about Prop trading. It seems that a lot of the prop trading in the banks is just making markets on different products. The whole subprime mess was because the banks who sold subprime had to take the equity tranches of the CDOs which ended up...

Hello I was wondering how the MMs hedge their exposure in the nat gas, and crude markets. My guess would be to hedge it with the back months. Thanks

thanks for all the input and advice guys i really appreciate all of the help

Thanks for the input, is there anyway you could explain how they "adjust" the price of the options, i'm not qutie clear on it? Will the contract adjust to include the dividend in the price, and therefore not fall on the ex-div date? thanks

Well the bid/ask spread is pretty tight relatively to the size of the trade potential, so I don't really see how the market makers are going to try and shaft everyone. Do you know how they are going to "get me" when I try to make this trade? The only way that I see this happening is as the...

Yea I'm trying to arb it, and was wondering if $45 call was deep enough in the money? Or is it to close the the price, and will cause some more volatility in my returns. Thanks