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Sounds like Glazer has more than half his net worth in Man U. Its a quick and dirty way to get liquid for him.

username, I don't know how to do this, but you might... How do you create a trading model in options that trades off a volatility model? Just knowing the answer should make you very rich, so it might be more fun to pick a random job and to solve that problem on your own...

The number of suicides is likely statistically irrelevant. I worked at a place (in Canada) where 3 people killed themselves over a 6 mth period (it was a manufacturing firm). Not a very uplifting environment. And yes, I found a new job and left after number 1. But Japan has a common...

Mynd - If you want to learn about intuition in trading - look up Eugene Gendlin's book - focusing Also look up Flavia Cymbalista - She has studied traders and developed the focusing work by Gendlin to be more effective for traders to develop new innovative trading strategies and...

I read somewhere in that a statistical study of price behavioral psychology they found that the fear of missing out on a Market move is 4 times greater than the fear of losing money. To simplfy: Greed is the fear of missing out on something

I don't yet own a mac, but I did the research and plan on getting own soon - I'd get VM Fusion by VMware... save yourself the hassle of trying to find a Mac ready platform. Its like $60 now.

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Probably a lot easier and more profitable openning a Chinese food take out joint. Maybe not in a big city, but in a moderately populated suburb....

Take a look at Joe Saluzzi's rants / articles / interviews. He's from Themis Trading in NJ, and he's been highly critical of HFT for a while on CNBC, Bloomberg, etc. His view is that HFT creates the illusion of liquidity, while making the bigger market participants pay for it via larger...

Ok - You are a BRIC strategist..... Latin American equity analyst Global Macro with a specialty in latin american equities, commodity stocks, etc.... If you play it like that, maybe it'll work. But it doesnt sound like you have actual work experience.. so good luck... And yes, i...

krak, just be upfront, tell them that you're tired of how trading has been infiltrated by all these 0% interest rated, leveraged, politically connected banks, and that you want to turn some churn and burn prop job into a hedge fund kingdom, all the while studying for your MBA in between some...

Has anyone actually got a job off Craigslist? Not just a trading job, any job... It seems it was a good service for people 8 years ago, but it seems like now people (recruiters, businesses, scams..etc) are just trolling for resumes on there.

Thing is, this is not exactly "game-changing" governance here. All it takes is a couple grand, a logo, and these banks will have reallocated their risk capital to some other anonymous division of their banks. Besides. Obama is in bed with hedge funds- take D.E Shaw and Co, though they are...

I just took a picture of a bunch of trading related books I keep around. There are a bunch of technical oriented books in there, some about bond trading and options, and towards the end its trading psychology, or books about traders - stock market superstars, market wizards, etc...

It's weird, working in another industry, there were some simple things in my field I would have liked to have learned early on that I didn't. Ironically, many of these things could be taught by myself in a hour or so if someone had actually trained me. So I started to wonder, is there...

The real effective theory for traders such as George Soros is from a sector of psychology called "focusing", which was originally developed by Eugene Gendlin of U of Chicago. http://www.marketfocusing.com/ft1.html The author applied the study of the topic to famous traders and found they...

problem with anything in trading is that correlation doesn't predict causality. That being said some people have good models of volatility but I doubt it has anything to do with only simple volatility measures of implied vol.

Or they create the impression of either very little or very much volatility and trade around that activity. Searching for orders... Searching for stops...

I can't answer your Q about the prints, but it doesn't fundamentally seem like a good investment as a bride - CEPH drugs are going Generic quick, so there is little upside. But in this environment, investment banks are roping in anyone with cash into a merger. In 2-3 years we'll see the...

trend following (breakout) volatility based mean reversion (Stat Arb)