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Wintergasp is not using a low latency setup with 100-150ms latency. I would not even call sub 10ms latency a HFT setup. Cross connection usually yields sub 5ms but when you have above 10ms while your server is in the same rack as the exchanges matching engine is running on + a 5ft long cable to...

Meaning they don't find desperate burger flippers for minimum wage anymore

only 10 ticks? Look at the bid/offer of spot markets...it's not better either. Should be a free for all for traders who provide liquidity

A sponsor that actually provides valuable information instead of just shilling. Thumbs up

hm...honestly, I don't know about clickhouse nor am I a kdb expert. Your buddy should know a lot more, also he should be embarrased because a tool that is 5 digits/year minimum is slower than a retail program XD Database structure heavily depends on what you want to do with it since for trading...

May I introduce you to my friend the takeover? Unless you're only talk about index products then you would never short naked calls. Selling calls is also never a good hedge since the further the market falls, the less short deltas you will have. Think about trading a risk reversal next time...

IMHO there isn't anything that comes close to the performance of kdb+ but as you also know it will cost an arm and a leg. Unless you're into sub ms market making (which makes expensive tech a requirement anyways) it is not necessarry. I quote across a variety of products and exchanges and I...

buy calls, hedge delta->win through vol and skew

"I want to buy lotto tickets" -> goes ahead and scrapes up some teenies for ridiculous IVs -> market crashes, OTMs slide down the skew "why didn't I make money"? THE END

Gold also goes down when there is risk off

Always double down..always. This will ease the emotional pain of your losing position by replacing it with the emotional pain of a blown up account

a vertical has less delta than an outright futures trade. Increase your position size in the vertical in a way that it matches your outright futures delta. This way you get the same profit, but convexity on the downside eases the pain. Nevertheless you are really up for a rough ride because...

So do you make >500$ on 4 out of 5 days? If not, don't even think about going full time. As already mentioned, treat it as a side gig and don't expect anything. If you are in bed at night thinking about how you are going to outtrade everybody and you'll soon be independend and a star at the...

if you gave me 10$ a month I'd probably look into FT, WSJ, Barrons, Benzinga, MarketWatch and the likes. It's all slow curated bullshit. Nice weekend read but not useful for trading.

twitter. faster than bloomy if you follow the right handles

hm...average hold time for winning trades is 15 hours, average hold time for losers is 7 days. Do you add to losers and hope they recover somehow?

ahhh....here we go again. The one eyed leading the blind :D

that's got nothing to do with options...you're a long term investor who collects a couple of pennies per dollar risk. Don't get me wrong, I salute you. But your primary PnL driver is your stock pick, which you're apparently good at.

What do you want to hedge in that IBM short iron condor?

depends on what you want to hedge