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Most of these guys are Engineers :) New breed of elite traders are all Math, Physics, Quant Finance type guys.

Its natural for most i-banks to stake a minority stake in these firms as they are already doing business with them via providing prime brokerage services. Lehman did the same for DE Shaw a few months back. I don't see anything wrong here. With proper risk management this is basically a win-win...

We've been using CEP/ESPER with great success over the past few months. Steam of events "order messages" are sent to a risk monitoring engine, the engine queries on event stream and or event properties analysis is performed on Time based queries, aggregation, statistical trends and various...

I'm glad to see Timmay capatalizing on his fame :) Rumor has it Timmay is going to be FOX's answer to CNBC's Cramer :) Go Timmay!!!!!!

All traders are paid with performance there is no "salary" when work at most prop firms.

We also Wombatfs for market data they are if not one of the best IMO but they are also very very expensive. Wombat has a magnitude of feed handlers to support all data feeds which we require.

I highly doubt it, you could use something like XSim "Exchange Simulator" from Aegis software it might be a little costly but very simple to setup and supports many other protocols like CMS, CTCI, ouch etc..

Yeah most are still running brokers are still running FIX 4.2 today the growth area for FAST is mostly the market data people and FIX 5.0 will address many of the concerns the none equities people have been dying for especially fixed income and commodities trading.

FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL) has announced that the FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXatdl (SM)) has entered its beta phase in preparation for its ultimate release targeted for late 2007. The new language will deliver advanced support for algorithmic trading, enabling adopters to benefit...

Let me get this straight if I develop a new strategy that makes my employer reek in record profits and bring new business into the firm for that year I'm not entitled for any performance incentive?? And to top it off I'm now locked in for 5 years before I can see any bonus compensation...

Heh funny isnt it, probably the same guy on two accounts. I'm still waiting to hear one valid reason on why people working on Wall St. shouldnt make the type of money they do. I've been on the street for about 3 years and know the dedication and hard work it takes to survive so please tell...

Most quotes like "They shouldnt be make that kind of money" usually comes from people who have no idea how business works.

I tip my hat to this man, he was definitely under paid, over worked and made the right move. Man I wonder how many Goldie alumni's are now running their own funds AQR, TPG, Eton etc...

Do you have any idea how smart and how hard the average wall streeters work? This is a very naive statement. Jealousy really sucks

Hedge Funds Feed On Sub-Prime Woes July 25, 2007 foreclosureCredit worries in the sub-prime space may be causing jitters on Wall Street, but it isn't bad news for everyone. FINalternatives recently spoke with two hedge fund managers who have produced lights-out returns this year by betting...

Northern Rock Sells $922 Million of Loans to Lehman (Update1) By Jon Menon Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Northern Rock Plc, Britain's worst- performing bank stock this year, sold 465 million pounds ($922 million) of commercial property loans to reduce riskier assets. A subsidiary of New...

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With the GNU C/C++ compiler and the opensource FIX engine - Quickfixengine you can be up and running with little or no time iwth minimal cost.

With C# your pretty much locked into Windows, Sorry Nitro but most trading systems today are developed in Java and C++ running on UNIX systems mostly Linux on and X64. I know your a pretty smart guy but this is the craziest thing I've read from you on ET. :)