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    Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

    https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-12-24
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    The Fed Remaking the Dollar (Digital??)

    crypto isnt anonymous; everything is tracked. if usd digital dollar every happens I bet barter systems will spring up. What's old is new again
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    All instruments/derivatives for a US Equity?

    this is very broad. You can tie in any baskets and derivatives of ie. (etf, future, ...) that hold IBM (or some form if ibm). Also asset swaps, cfds
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    I can't get the parts to fix my car.

    maybe only Honda has the machine but I doubt only Honda installs it. I bet there are Honda mechanics that know work arounds.
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    I can't get the parts to fix my car.

    there's a market for foreign car parts. Not sure if it's modernized at all these days
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    Interactive Brokers will offer crypto trading by the end of the summer

    will they offer perpetuals or swaps? what exchanges? For vanilla bitcoin is IB the market maker?
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    Backtesting futures using python

    Are saying rentech's staff are incompetent in regards to trading and research? What I was getting at is that these backtesters will not help if the end user has no idea what they are trying to accomplish. Case in point, zipline was part of quantopian which had an army of "researchers"...
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    Backtesting futures using python

    no back tester will help general trading/research incompetence. I would be surprised if any result from any back tester worked profitably in the real world
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    Software for historical performance/correlations

    now a GUI as well? feature creep. If there was software that does what you want it is a lot more involved than some think. ad hoc scripts are a different thing
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    Attach an order (stoploss, takeprofit) with a different quantity to the parent order?

    1. set a stop loss for 50 on your current position 2. attach a stop loss for 100 to your 100 buy order
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    Designing an automated market for crypto options as an exercise: Tips on Black-Scholes?

    have RFQs. the less transparent a market the better it is for market makers
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    Sharpe Ratio / et al at Schwab?

    can you get returns? sharpe = mean(returns) /variance(returns)
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    Advice on how to make 5%/month on $1 million

    removing profits and maintaining $1M level gives a risk of ruin of 100%
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    Need Automated Twitter Bot

    that was my point. What does this have to do with a twitter bot? You want a data aggregator and a notification system (ie. twitter). The data gathering/polling is tedious
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    Just how good an investor is Mark Cuban?

    he himself didnt think of this. it is common on every company sale to lockin during lockup. asset swaps, cfd, reversals ...
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    Need Automated Twitter Bot

    this is more than a twitter bot. Where will that data be coming from? If you're asking how to post to twitter it requires less than 20 lines of code https://www.tweepy.org/
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    How to know whether I am overfitting?

    https://www.kaggle.com/learn-forum/157623
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    Past floor traders

    doubt that. you're on the floor to buy the bid/sell the offer. Be at the front of the queue...obtain order flow. There were people down there that didn't even understand why they made money
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    GC Options - Active Months

    isnt the gold spread just the lease rate? They never move. You can put GTC orders on every combination: buy the bid/sell the offer. There was some fund doing this for a while; worked great until spreads moved
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    Payment for Order Flow: My Two Cents (per hundred)

    familiar with fixed income, fx, any otc markets? How is it unfair? Are you trying compete with institutions as a retail trader?
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