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You have to consider that the purchasing power of labor has declined since 1978... Also the number of non-competitive sectors in the u.s has increased since then, and the solution (stop gap measure) has been to use foreign labor and foreign products to fill in the gaps and resist inflation.. or...

There's a lot of wisdom in that statement. It takes a long time before most people figure that one out, if ever :) The only solace for a decline in ibanks is that you might see volatility and trading opportunities return. Most of the ibankers coming off sucking the Banking nipple blow out...

You should think of it as a business. Do you own or work for a business? Start from there. Seems like most people starting out thinking they can find the Markets g-spot

simple rule they could implement: you cannot issue quotes for more than 2 standard deviations away from the normal rolling 10 or 30 period rate of issuance.... QCOM let says has 10 million shares a day with 100000 orders couldnt issue more than say 4 orders a second... 60*60*8 = 28,800...

If Soros wanted to scare people shitless, he would have said no matter what Germany does, their will be deflation. Instead he dances around a range of peripheral topics... Its almost like a press release advocating a kind of ongoing political indecision going forward. My guess, he has made...

Markit for equities.... 1000s to 10000s a year... http://www.markit.com/en/products/data/cds-pricing/cds-pricing.page?

This link is hilarious, I love it. Canada has these psuedo-degree colleges now too.. many are unregulated and such. Some are obviously more retarded than others: http://www.trios.com

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/82/290/How_to_profit_from_the_coming_collapse_of_China.html from the article: 2. Buy long out of the money put options on the Yuan ETF- Investors worldwide are making large bets that the Yuan will revalue and gain value versus the U.S dollar. Ironically, this...

A real HFT system if well thought out has the data change the queries in real time.... you can't do that in a relational DB. You need KDB or some event based processor.

Exactly. A subtle form of money printing.

Quality Money Management: Process Engineering and Best Practices for Systematic Trading and Investment By Andrew Kumiega High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems By Irene Aldridge Empirical Market Microstructure By Joel Hasbrouck Inside...

They should force the student loan market to be open and transparent and not government subsidized. They should also make it possible to short these Markets so that a guy taking a science degree pays a different rate than a guy taking music studies. I would love to buy credit swaps on redundant...

I recommend reading a bit of Richard Koo. http://ineteconomics.org/sites/inet.civicactions.net/files/INETOS-KooPresentation.pdf http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/richardc.koo.pdf koo is more concerned with repairing the private sectors balance sheet, which makes...

only use a new rule if it doesnt significantly effect the scalability of the strategy. I assume your testing equities... see how the strategy performs in terms of scale (i.e with millions, and even more) without the new rule versus with the new rule. Some rules are kinda fudges that...

Some people who climb Everest actually DIE. Lets hope they have an icepick and a hyperbaric chamber when the Market looks like its falling off a cliff.

most people start with : currency - find a good FX broker bonds - bloomberg or on the ground research individual equities - search through bloomberg for the larger ones indices ETFs - http://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:FRN Obviously this is the line of least resistance...

I've seen so many people now trying that "business model". It's like the new new internet business meets the real world. You might have heard of a site called craigslist?!? Most colleges and universities already have a free forum or posting page specifically for this service. I doubt...

look into allocating to a long volatility fund or create one yourself. You may need to be long volatility in several asset classes to adequately hedge - use equity, bond, and FX overlays. equity - OTM puts on stocks/indices bonds - OTM calls on treasuries/gov bonds. Also look into Ted...

This is the perfect timing for the obama administration. It comes at a time when his popularity is waning, the economic recovery has stagnated and now the masses can play dress-up with Obama while he plays big bad wolf against big oil.

corinthian, career education, devry.... bubble stocks for 5 years now.