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NCO Rule #1: I don't exist. Don't fucking look at me.

Otherwise coming back to my original post. Is it my post that's weird or is it the world that's crazy? Read: farmland animals. I'm actually very surprised the type of enterprise I'm proposing is if not the norm, at least more widespread. Competent serfs (like me! :) ) work the farmland and...

Commenting on 1028 applicants on a single job. Even from the perspective of the employer if I'd ever have more than 20-30-50 candidates on a single place, I'd throw the CVs of all further candidates to the garbage bin. If they applied to such odds it's obvious if someone saw 50 candidates on a...

Thanks. I like the "farmland" expression, will incorporate it into my vocabulary. Hope you don't charge royalties :) Actually I already said I'm aware my post is "useless". Quoting myself: "What I do find reasonable to expect though is polishing this 'pitch' to the point the message is crystal...

You know what's a joking joke? An ordinary job ad for an ordinary quant offering an ordinary salary gets posted and 17 hours later has 1028 applicants. Some people get it though (@Real Money), scattered among the vast amounts of clueless. Who in their right mind would even contemplate the...

Trying to explain Gaussian the difference between an entrepreneur and a contractor bitch is like trying to teach prime numbers to a cow. We're talking hard cognition limits there so sadly some concepts will forever remain out of reach for both protagonists.

This is entrepreneurship. If it doesn't sound crazy, you're probably not trying hard enough.

Having been on Elite Trader since a few years now, I know better than to hope I'm actually gonna get an associate here. Remember the famous quote "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." What I do find reasonable to expect though is polishing this...

I'm posting in this subforum although it's highly specialized in options since my experience with options forum is that it's mostly formed by amateurs. So going for professionals this time :) Please evaluate the following proposal. Feel free to comment in public or reach me in private...

Don't remember the article, just Google it. Opinions from a crowd of wiser than the crowd people :) What do you think? 1) Was his fault. 2) Was system's fault (some call it "fascist" as in to like you didn't already know how fucked up and rotten the system is). 3) Was part system part guy's...

Metacognition: Looking at the results of my latest test, either there's a bug in my software or there's something very "wrong" in the market, i.e. it doesn't function at all according to "specs".

1) On a radius of 1500Km around me there's ABSOLUTELY noone who at least's got the slightest idea what I'm talking about. It's all peasants who can't even wipe their ass right let alone make a breakthrough with derivatives (like options). 2) In general, my contacts with the supposedly...

I thought of trying to sell it but it doesn't make money yet, it's only an essential tool / step into making money. Think having an operating system before you have Facebook or Assassin's Creed (strategies with options). I also noticed that while less than 1% of not the people who work in...

At one point I may either open source my application so far or sell it for a moderate price in order to gather enough resources / make enough money to continue to the next level. Right now I need curated marketdata and reliable pricing in order to proceed with researching trading strategies. And...

>> underlying & strike > no problems here Not that simple. You should use the "forward" price instead of just the spot underlier price. If you get that right, you can ignore interest and dividend yield (set them to zero). You need to derive the forward price from the option prices using the...

It's just a countryside thing, disappearing fast in today's metropolises? In the ~= 1000 people country village where I was born, when you saw a guy, know him/her or not, you said "good day". "Good morning", "Good afternoon", "Good evening" or even looking into his eyes, smiling and nodding...

Seriously speaking, making money in trading is very "proprietary", meaning everyone who does it is very secretive on it and for the right reasons. So there's little in the way of "what SUCCESSFUL option traders need" which can be shared among a wide market. My take after may years of trying...

As an option trader myself who's been also "working for The Man" and developing his own tools, I've my own set of requirements from a tool for "option traders": 1) First and foremost it should make me money... eventually. 2) Well ideally the tool should also tell me what to trade to make money...

My take is that the best way to figure out what option traders need is to be an option trader yourself (eat your own dogshit).

Not contradicting you but their business model is still worth a quarter of a billion dollars, just what we do. Get other parts of the business rallying together and you get to what a recent Hacker News article pointed out: when you think YOUR civilization is special just think that the estimated...