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    What´s wrong with WTS?

    There is no reason to speculate - they do.
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    Looking for a Developer/Programmer to create a program for mutual use.

    The quickest way to dispel "doubt" is to pay people for the work you're asking them to do. It's a pretty serious alarm bell that you don't appear able to invest even the small amount of money necessary to have someone do this professionally.
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    Oil $20 longer term ?

    Oil sands/shale aren't extractable at $20/bbl. That supply completely disappears long before such prices are reached.
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    Why Trade Futures?

    That statement is incorrect. Professionals trade across all those asset classes, often simultaneously.
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    Tell me a first world country that is not socialist

    Well, if there are no first world countries that aren't significantly socialist, that would clear evidence that socialism actually works. Otherwise they wouldn't have become first world countries. PS. Between persistent deficit financing and high levels of corporate welfare, the US is in...
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    Is GDP the correct way to measure nation wealth?

    Hell yeah. :) But stewing up a lamb or goat before it's weaned and had a chance to put some meat on that skeleton? Nah, that I won't do, it would be like having a whack of chickens and never hatching an egg. ;) Those dusty old dudes were bang on...don't boil the kid in its mother milk...
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    Is GDP the correct way to measure nation wealth?

    "Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk." Same as it ever was...
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    Programming guru

    There is more than one extremely well known and heavily used exchange where just the trip through the matching is going to take 50x that number.
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    This Is What Happens When A Buggy Algorithm Goes Crazy

    I hear ya. Still have mental scars from '87.
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    This Is What Happens When A Buggy Algorithm Goes Crazy

    It would have to be a much longer hold than that...to be really fair on a "global" scale, the order needs to be held until the same time-zone adjusted time is reached across all possible trading locations...
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    This Is What Happens When A Buggy Algorithm Goes Crazy

    Nanex: this is what happens when a buggy mind goes crazy.
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    Trading and Disappearing Liquidity

    It sounds like you're working from a screen. That means a few things...first, your latency is well over "milliseconds" because it's going to take 32ms before your screen even refreshes...second, human reaction time is measured in tens of milliseconds at its best, more on the order of hundreds...
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    Programming guru

    That's heading towards 1%er income so I'm not sure "tragic" is exactly the right descriptor, but I agree with the general sentiment, at $150k+ you should be able to find decent talent, assuming you have a good story to offer them. I had a junior (less < 2 years experience) guy implement a...
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    All money is created out of debt? -or not?

    There are no stable banking systems. Non-fiat currencies go down just as hard and just as frequently as fiat currencies. It's in our nature as humans to blow shit up - there is no definition of "money" that will prevent us from doing so. Evolution is clearly selecting for fiat...obladi...
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    All money is created out of debt? -or not?

    The government prints all kinds of "tangible stuff" that isn't money. Money is different. It represents an obligation, commonly expressed as a debt.
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    Computer Science for Trading?

    Beautifully put!
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    Connecting to the back-end of a prop-firm

    What specifically do you want to connect to? Literally directly to the exchanges? Or to your bank's SOR? If directly to the exchange, to how many of them? Do you want to drop into one major datacenter (eg NY4) and cross-connect to the others, or do you really feel you need to be co-located in...
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    Farewell Ron Paul

    He ran for office in 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 88, 96, 98, 00, 02, 04, 06, 08, 10. Yes, he was a career politician. And by launching his relations into the business, a dynastic one on top of it.
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    Farewell Ron Paul

    If that's how you feel, that's how you feel. In my book, spending 40 years chasing political office makes you a career politician, and that's what Ron Paul did. You, of course, are free to believe whatever you like.
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    Farewell Ron Paul

    Hell if I know. Just passing along what I've been told...
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