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    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY - trading room 34 bloombergs

    they just opened a brand new trading room with 34 bloombergs is that the best academic trading room or not? i think its amazing that a local school like that has 34 bloombergs, i remember NYU had one a while back.
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    BEST HFs ytd non US

    they have "cheat sheets" for different functional areas, equities, fixed income, derivatives, etc that give you major functions for them. you can pull it up on bloomberg and print.
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    BEST HFs ytd non US

    go to HFND function, you can get a lot of information that way
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    BEST HFs ytd non US

    5-10
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    BEST HFs ytd non US

    10 best this yr
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    MERGER ARBITRAGE/SPECIAL SITUATIONS TRADING, trends in this style of trading

    i'm not looking for % returns, that I have, rather for comments on how this style is changing, has it eroded lately? anybody trading mergers, special sits?
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    nobody is buying one year out these days so they get creative and come up with this... "With buyer appetite so healthy, approximately one-third of our communities now have backlogs stretching out twelve months. Therefore, in a number of communities, we've chosen to hold off taking new home...
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    Ernst and Young report - Investment Attractiveness Survey, USA #2

    seems like central europe is coming on strong..
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    How do you buy Chinese YUAN?

    do you bank with these guys? if so whats your experience, their rates seem ultra competitive..
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    Ernst and Young report - Investment Attractiveness Survey, USA #2

    1. China 2. USA 3. India 4. Poland 5. Germany 6. UK 7. Czech Republic 8. France 9. Russia 10. Hungary http://www.ey.com/global/download.nsf/International/European_Attractiveness_Survey_May_2005/$file/EY_European_Attractiveness_Survey_June_2005.pdf a lot of interesting stats in...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    bottom line is this, builders are not blowing out the numbers anymore. at best we get the gap and crap scenario with no volume follow through on the long side whatsover.
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    where are these blowout quarters? everybody guiding in line, and its all on homes they only took deposits on and treat as sold.
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    no, i called it to end last quarter. most of builders reporting so far had "inline quarters" so as far as i am concerned first quarter was the last of outperformance for builders.
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    builders are not exactly in the existing home sales market. lets see what the new home sales look like tomorrow, i think they look like s.. and continue gettin worse from now on. looking at ctx and ryl and even joe today, the days of beating by 10% are long gone. the outperformance has...
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    Continuing Education

    unless you have strong analytical skills you wont enjoy this.
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    Getting out of Back Office!

    As for the designations you can add CAIA to the list, its only two levels now, just like the CFA used to be long time ago. If you are on a temp contract, you wont even have a chance to move within the organization. Front office is still bullshit, you might be dealing with the desk but you are...
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    SAC Capital's Trading Strategy?

    really? then how come every elite reader isnt a billionaire yet? if these certain skills can be developed, im sure everybody here is eager to get them. its like saying you can develop skills of an nba player, maybe but only select few have the total package to make it. s. cohen was an...
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    SAC Capital's Trading Strategy?

    you cant compare mutual funds with hedge funds.
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    SAC Capital's Trading Strategy?

    lately he has been taking big stakes (10%)+ in companies, wtsla and bbi paying off nicely so far. he also branched out into fixed income and other markets lately. other than that he pays for info more than anyone else, you can imagine the calls he gets. above all he has innate skills...
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    Being an Execution Trader

    excellent way to get exposure to multiple markets. if you can get that opportunity dont even hesitate~
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