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Doesn’t that mean that if I want to use a single application on the full screen (like Excel) it will behave as if I have 4 discrete monitors? What are the advantages of this setup? PS. Actually, since it’s separate inputs I can use Linux and Windows on the same monitor without X-windows, which...

Well, that’s the point of the game for most discretionary traders. Each trade has its own rationale and, because of the limited amount of ideas, you size the trades up. The process is mostly as follows- the PM/trader comes up with a hypothesis, then he proceeds to do some research to reinforce...

$0.3 @ $0.4 Can’t get any tighter in this size, sorry I never said I was. My employer keeps me around since I can lift heavy things.

Well, have you done anything to change the world for the better?

To be fair, as a quant you will be making selective observations too, just in a different way. For example, majority of quants do not try to assign a causal hypothesis to whatever patterns they find (in fact, most people don't even have a good prior hypothesis when going through the data).

It's very hard to generalize. It's probably true that an average portfolio of systematic strategies has a higher IR simply due to bigger ability to diversify. It's probably true that a discretionary strategy usually has higher capacity. You can have an HFT guy who's Sharpe is in double digits...

The below came from another thread and caught my attention, as it contrasts discretionary and systematic approach to the markets. I have done both and was reasonably good at both. There are advantages to both approaches and disadvantages to both, in my view and it would be very interesting to...

Matters of great concern should be treated lightly... Matters of small concern should be treated seriously. -- Hagakure :)

I fell for the whole extra-wide curved monitor myself and got one for myself at work. Not worth it. When I work from home I mostly write code or something else research-oriented, so I do need the extra real estate. It's not an issue of space, actually. I have a little domestic monster (well, I...

The idea of taking a big one and mounting it vertically is pretty interesting, actually. The curved one is actually what I use at work which makes it convenient to use remote desktop, too.

All right, hardware gurus! I am setting up a spot to work from home. My standing desk is a box that is 42" tall and 34" wide and I would like to fit the largest monitor possible into that space. What are my options?

Because a lot of them have a market-neutral mandate, meaning they are literally not allowed to be long the broad market the way an individual would.

Indeed. Actually, it seems like their mandate is to be market-neutral (which, on average means "don't be down when SPX is down").

What time horizon, please? PS. With that level of conviction you better be short in size, cause you will make it big when it happens..

Nothing is set in stone yet. In fact, I hope the whole thing falls through but...

I think I should be happy about this, since my total rate is going down, even after all the deductions that have been destroyed. Yet somehow this feels like I am getting fucked.

I think he was staying in the NYC (there is a google campus here) so it was not a consideration. Maybe working in pure CS is far less stressful.

Well, it’s going to be close - I see post-close ticking around 267 +/- a cent :)

Pin! How does it feel? :D

I assume you are talking to me? :) it is HFT playing games. PS. @jimmyjazz is totally right