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Roman Empire, say around year zero (from current perspective). Speaking of history, I'm vaguely familiar with European history around that time. China... no idea, except they were about as quarelling among themselves as Europeans. South America... absolutely no idea. I think Mayas and Aztecs...

Nope but I'll do. Thanks for the info.

>> Hey, man! A little twine and saltpeter, throw in those sparkly rocks over there, and you really something!" Saltpeter is a bit more complicated. You have to piss in the same spot for months. Share it with cows who, bonus points, also shit there. Then by some strange twist of fate be...

The questions persist: 1) Do you remember a "flat vol" before even the concept of a flat vol surfaced out? 2) Where can I buy this antedeluvian data from?

#1: did that and now I'm blacklisted in my city.

Good advice even in the 80s!! [Re: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/old-issues-of-option-traders-magazine.320593/ ] Even more 2000 years ago, if you ignore inflation and attrition! :)

>> You immediately pray that you are in a location where you can at least partially understand and speak the language. Best advice so far. I'd wish they'd speak Latin. >> Next, find some clothes so that you can at least attempt to blend in. This is all in hopes to avoid getting burned at the...

I'm a programmer and have since some time realized that my best chances of success is doing the unthinkable: hiring another programmer, on my *own* payroll. Question: what's yours [leap of faith]?

You collapse and when you wake up you find yourself teleported back 1-2 thousands years in history. What do you do? [Thanks fan27 for the context which guided me into this question: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/programmer-interviews.320629/ ]

>> I have interviewed numerous candidates for positions at the company I work for and what separates the people who get offers and those that don't is the ability to talk in detail about the projects the candidates have worked on. That includes knowing pieces of the stack in detail that they...

@DaveV: Well, just copy-paste the link in a text editor, remove any weird characters and then copy-paste the result in a browser. You should know these things as a programmer :p

One thing not covered in the above list is what happens when you overflow (run out of 1-9 to use for numbers or even hexadecimals as in my case). Also known as "changing jobs". My experience is along the stuff that happens when you learn a foreign language and speak it with the natives. There...

Looked fine in my text editor!! :D

OptionsTrader0306.pdf is from March, 2006. Not really fascinating from a technology point of view (smartphones weren't ubiquitous yet but they are now and still haven't made no difference in what they can bring to the individual trader). I'm curious about the technology and knowledge of the 80s...

Those of you who work as programmers, what do you think of this list: [Ten Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role - http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/jobhound/2018/04/24/ten-things-i-learned-from-a-job-hunt-for-a-senior-engineering-role.html 1. The job search takes much, much...

>> The price is coming from the market, you can use whatever model you want to risk manage your positions. This statement implies you don't understand [much] about how options work. Which it's a good thing, those of us who do need this "market" if we're to make any money.

>> Black scholes is only applicable to short term contracts. Variance gamma better prices long term options. No one to my knowledge has solved the Buffett complaint or the volatility smile etc. I heard that before the crash of 1987, the option prices were pretty "flat" in volatility, thus very...

The less you write, the more it is a win. Seems to me they still hold you liable for quantity delivered.

Me.

I'm all for a Trading Platform, a New System, whatever saves us. Being 40 already however I remember a thing from my 15's. Asked some of my slave supervisors why they torment me so much. Their answer: I do to you what was done to me. There's no escape. Not for long. I've avoided it 40 years...