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    When to get out of a failing option trade?

    which market? the sector I am in is like watching paint dry
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    Anybody trade stock warrants

    for institutions yes. most of the orders are shopped around
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    How do big price moves happen in low volume?

    prices find liquidity. assume you're making a market 10/12 ,100 up. someone lifts your offer. you put in a new offer 100@24. Someone buys 1 share at 24 :strong:. price doubled on nothing
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    Anybody trade stock warrants

    an old employer had a desk exclusively for japanese warrants years ago. maybe still popular there
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    Who takes the opposite position in a trade?

    exchanges dont take to other side. they are just a big back office. depending on the option market either a market maker or anyone in the world
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    Series 3 license professional?

    having a series 3 doesnt change you're costs
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    Retrieving active orders with IBPy

    http://bit.ly/1fPx3lD
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    Rookie Question on Sizing, Etc

    2000 is your cost. In you're scenario 400 is what you want to risk; so if you're down 400 get out. No idea what the 6% rule is.
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    Is a Trader Employer or Employee ? Is Trading a Business or Job ?

    Do you think a trader at a hedge fund or bank is an employee when they are paid salary and bonus and are profit centers?
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    Is a Trader Employer or Employee ? Is Trading a Business or Job ?

    be both. An employee who is a "proft center"
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    Former MIT physicist behind Blackheath Volatility Arbitrage Strategy and Risk Management

    Same maturity? Thats same profile as a butterfly. you could sell near term atm straddles and buy slightly more further out strangles
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    Physical Crude Traders: Solver Models

    maybe you're thinking of them using linear,nonlinear, optim, ... solvers within their models
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    looking for HFT firms -- very experienced programmer with knowledge of hardware, networks, etc

    birds of a feather. I used to think MIT was a large school because there were so many people from there.
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    How about using selenium for the web-crawling in IB webpage?

    I remember using perl to do this in late 90s
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    looking for HFT firms -- very experienced programmer with knowledge of hardware, networks, etc

    you dont know any trading firms? post your linkedin and github. Working from home doing mind numbingly boring work can pay well if you think a bit.
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    Question on sharing accumulated quotes between ZeroMQ processes

    well if you want to share data between threads/processes dont reinvent the wheel http://chronicle.software/ https://ignite.apache.org/
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    Question on sharing accumulated quotes between ZeroMQ processes

    Usually each process consumes the data it needs. So if you have strategy trading corn it doesn't need to consume oil quotes. It gets a corn quote message deserializes it and stores it or uses it somehow
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    Question on sharing accumulated quotes between ZeroMQ processes

    You dont need to share anything just pubsub quotes from aggregator to consumers. Do all your consumers need all the quotes?
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