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    A Trader ideal 2nd job

    here's one that has probably been addressed, so please feel free to attach links. What would a fulltime trader do for extra cash at night/weekends? -work in a bar- not good because it gets late and drinking/hangovers are not good for trading. -hotel- maybe -nighttime shipping? excercise...
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    MBA after establishing your business...?

    MSF MSFE MSQCF. Applied Stats Applied Mathematics. anything along these lines will expand your understanding of modeling and CDS and such things or strategies that are math intensive in the markets like bonds, derivatives, etc. if you want more general knowledge and its for your own benefit...
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    Schonfeld Group and Lightspeed Holdings to Merge Retail Trading Operations

    FROM WEBSITE: Schonfeld Group and Lightspeed Holdings to Merge Retail Trading Operations -- Combined Company to be Clear Leader/Active Consolidator of Professional Trader Business; Deal Roughly Doubles Individual Company Volumes . -- Merged Business to Offer Advanced...
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    real estate LA - banging my head against the wall

    pabst you hit it, nail-on-the-head. I traded NY to Charlotte and I see it all the time. Young people who can't scratch 2 nickels together and get a dime who are from Boston NJ, NY and others, regularly show up to get their feet on the ground. Maybe its a temporary thing, but many of the people...
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    Mortgage Rate Locks

    more on this. theres actually lots more on this! I don't hedge for a bank, but it goes something like this: there a lot of things the banks can do. the question is do they want to hold it, or sell your loan. If Sale - then they sell into the mortgage TBA market or securitize it for monthend or...
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    Mortgage Rate Locks

    the 10yr. is the better choice. I though rate locks had the added benefit of giving you a lower rate if rates went down...??? I also thought the trade was already paid for in form of a higher cost cost mortgage than say a 30 day rate lock.
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    Where can I find S&P 500 Total Return Data, Year by Year?

    Bloomberg workstation: 80-00 : 17.8524 % 81-00 : 17.1309 % 82-00 : 18.4955 % 80-7/31/06: 13.0041 %
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    Trillium (Schonfeld)

    Haven't heard much on these guys lately. How's that firm doing? the website looks good... I used to have friends that worked in NYC Schonfeld they've since left , then I lost touch.
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    Alabama

    i live in Charlotte, my brother lives in Atlanta, . Charlotte is smallish and does have a bit of that mainstreet thing going now, I enjoy it overall, but, In your shoes I would go to Atlanta. I just got back from a great weekend there. pay enough$ and you can live in a nice area or urban spot...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    I grew up there then moved south. I say make the trade! i was just at my pool :) and friends in NY/saten Island etc. were complaining about the cold rain. My opinion is the RE there is rich but not total bubble, just enough to make all the owners w/ oversized mortgages sweat. taxes are...
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    yield curve

    here's a less than exact answer: the 30 year tsy most often used to create the curve has just switched from the old one to the new issued (or when-issued) one which is a largely different bond than the previous. Plus the 30 yr has supply/demand technicals that are unique b/c its just getting...
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    Double minimum credit card paym'ts

    Dr Steph - you are correct. the poor blokes are the "fringes". the interesting thing is that many of those fringe people are not even "poor". they don't look, act , or spend "poor" how many of the people who are truly on the fringes of the credit treadmill is what I'm afraid of. Here...
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    Double minimum credit card paym'ts

    there will be a quick damaging reality check for the fringes (albeit that's a lot of people) and probably some bad fallout for them. Everyone who is credit card reliant and running balances who can actually make that doubled payment will be fine, b/c once that payment is made then it will free...
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    What happens, when you are short stock, which files bankrupcy?

    the stock you're short will still trade. soon there after its symbol will usually be changed in recognition of that. then ulitmately the company will go through bankruptcy proceedings. all the while you don't need to cover. usually its still trading .0001 etc. Unless you want to wait for tax...
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    Bay Area job market

    The detailed responses are greatly appreciated. ultimately my middle office job is not the career of choice. The corp. is trying to set up a 2nd operation for business continuity in case nyc blows up. The goal is a fully capable front, and back office. It should be a "great opportunity"...
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    Bay Area job market

    Thank you. NYC and tristate area is the same deal, though rents are noticeably cheaper out there. I know my way around in NY and that gives me the edge. But going out there, its the other way around. I say forget tech jobs. I'm all wall st. What's the deal for wall streeters? ie condition...
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    Bay Area job market

    I am seriously considering going to SF with my job. Its an equity operations/trade support job. What's the deal out there w/ finance/wall st. type jobs? I know the tech job world is bad, but is it the same kind of barren waste land that I hear for finance? I'm from NYC and its bad here, but...
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    401k

    whoever they are they can tell you what options you have, they may offer lots of the services you are looking for w/ that money, though not likely for very active trading. they can also confirm what money, if any, is eligible to be rolled over to an IRA.
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    "This is the worst case of insider trading ever."

    I got a bloomberg but don't know how to find that volume data. anyone know?
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