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Can't imagine why you'd want the web browser... iTWS works great as an app.

Because they're arb'ing mispricings between related instruments. If WTI shoots up $3 in 2 hrs, what's the right price level for a different crude flavor? What refined products? I sure as heck dont have a clue. Physical traders should be aware of the underlying relationships that tie these...

I heard from someone in the pit that a drop in a cocoa-related ETF/ETN preceded the plunge in the future... so it might be whoever is running the ETF that blew this thing up. Just passing on unsubstantiated fifth-hand rumors!

The manager of that one is actually a regular ET poster...

Yea, me neither. http://www.iasg.com/groups/group/newport-private-capital-llc/program/optimum-income-program

I think the real problem with "reaching out" to investors from a database unsolicited... isn't that a SEC violation?

Yea, you can't hedge the OVX options without the futures. Strangely, it's not hard to hedge the OVX *futures* with the actual crude options... so I don't know what's keeping the CME and CBOE from getting their act together and finding us some realistic markets on these things.

Sounds crazy. Hacking a news site or two is one thing... DoS on paypal is one thing... But threatening the financial system? That's hard time you'd be looking at.

Well, it's not as if I was driving the round-trips in hopes of getting perks. :) Most of the fund is still my assets, so I have a vested interested in keeping headwinds as low as possible. I'm running a fully automated, semi-HFT black box algorithm. The number of RTs are just something I have...

Good, I like seeing numbers. Your answer helps me understand what makes their world go around. It's too bad that the futures and traditional IB world seems so segregated. I generated $200k in futures-trading commissions for my FCM last year... and my AUM is already double the size it was at...

Before you convince me I should shoot myself... :) For the startup funds out there, you should know there *are* institutionals/FoFs out there who look at funds in my range. I know this not by rumor, but because I've spoken to them, and due dil is proceeding with a few. I've been told...

On the cold calling, I think I'm giving up on the idea. Other than the potential SEC issues... I don't think it's a good use of my time or resources. Stay tuned. Generally speaking, I like the concept... especially for us tiny funds. We need attention, and SEC-regulations make it...

Aaah, thanks for the clarification. I actually need to be setup before entitlement is enabled? I wasn't really that seriously pissed. :) At least a dash of playful. I'll get there, sooner or later.

I'm currently at $4.8mm.

I guess it's not all caviar and champagne in Bloomberg-land. I was very excited to find indicative variance swaps on BB from various firms, and was looking forward to hedging that aspect of my risk. I never had coverage previously (and had no idea how to get it)... so thought this was going to...

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Hey folks, Got another series of those emails advertising hedge fund contact databases yesterday. At the same time, recently started working with an institutional 3pm guy who takes a cut of commissions... And this begs the question. Assuming money for buying the database isn't a...

A bunch of Indian cops hitting citizens in New Delhi with sticks.

Interesting. I would've thought with the COMEX Gold volume, CME would do a better job of lining up volume for the VIX futures. But perhaps the GLD ETF is where the option volume really is, and CBOE gets to take advantage of that?

Just to keep all of the related thoughts in the same thread... CBOE is launching gold vix futures and options! Game on, CME! http://www.cboe.com/micro/gvz/introduction.aspx Now... where are my crude futures and options!?