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    BoA, MS, or GS

    27 this weekend
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    BoA, MS, or GS

    I started interviewing with Bank of America Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs about a month back and all 3 have given me an offer, anyone know which company would be a better place to be overall for the next 4-6 years, i'm still very young and I plan to learn as much as possible then...
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    Fail this question you should give up trading

    The question explicitly asked how much distance the bird travels after an hour the cars and the distance between them have really no bearings on the question itself.
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    Fail this question you should give up trading

    THe bird only flys along side the car for a split second, why do you care about the distance between the cars, after an hour the bird will only travel 60 miles. Its not that complicated really.
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    Fail this question you should give up trading

    Lets pretend they do s/brid/eagle
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    Fail this question you should give up trading

    Very simple question yet so many recruits get it wrong why? Lets see how many people can come up with the right and wrong answers. 2 Cars are traveling from opposite directions towards each other, each car is traveling excatly 50Mph, a bird flying along side one of the cars is traveling...
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    Internships in NYC

    At only 17 wow, at 17 I was too busy getting laid, partying and enjoying life, this industry is very hardcore and only the strongest survive and profit from it. I would consider going to coll0ege (Full Time) and start networking with other peers that share a common intrest and just let life...
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    Internships in NYC

    Most prop firms dont really hire interns. but good luck.
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    Exchange Connectivity

    Anyone know the type of connection needed today if one wanted to handle full feeds from the NYSE? I still see many companies subscribe to many exchanges today what's the biggest reason behind this besides the obvious (redundancy) ? I'm guess mostly for arbitrage type strageties.
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    Most inspirational investor of all time

    After reading Warren Buffet's detailed mini bio on Wikipedia all I can say is wow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
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    How much would you pay for algorithms

    Generic question to traders here how much would you be was willing to pay if someone offered to turn your standard trading methodologies that you use in head today into a working, functional algorithm that could be plugged into the platform of your choice? I know this probably wouldnt work with...
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    Looking for a job in Forex Market...

    Checkout FXCM they will take just about anyone, you can find a listing of available positions on nyc.craigslist.com search the job section for fxcm
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    Self Clearing

    General question sorry if its out of context is it the trend these days for prop firms to self clear? Is there really that much of a cost savings ?
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    McNealy forced to stand down

    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060424/sun_microsystems_mcnealy.html?.v=17
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    Python Programmers

    Anyone here using python and know if anyone brokers are supporting it? I really hate C/C++ and would perfer using something higher up the stack like python on a unix system.
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    Trading Infrastructure - (IT)

    Awesome feedback!!! Thank you.
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    Trading Infrastructure - (IT)

    I found a pretty high level overview of a trading network, I'm guessing a modern trading ticket processing infrastructure environment as shown here: http://www.finwin.com/images/TickerPlan_Diagram.jpg But I'm having a bit of time breaking it all down so anyone who maintains or has...
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    Transition from IT -> Finance

    I've been in IT for a little over 10 years with almost no (real) financial or trading experience, everything about financials I picked up on my own with my thinkorswim account, books, and this website, I’ve been doing this for about a year and I’ve been very successful for some odd reason...
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    Hedge Fund company

    I'm looking for details about a particular hedge fund company based in NYC called Intrade, I'm not 100% sure, but I dont think they have anything to do with the Dublin company Intrade (Intrade.com) if anyone can provide some insight about them, their clients, offical website, CEO etc... thanks.
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    FXCM is banned in Saudi Arabia

    FXCMÂ¥: Welcome to FXCM's Live Chat feature. So that I may better serve you, feel free to provide me with your name and email address. How can I help you? you: hello FXCMÂ¥: Hello you: is this a real person? FXCMÂ¥: yes FXCMÂ¥: my name is Matt FXCMÂ¥: how may I help you? you: I will be...
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