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    Are Teachers Unions To Blame For Failing Schools?

    The teachers unions are generally opposed to merit pay, so teachers are paid based on years of service, rather than classroom achievement. This pay system is a disincentive to anyone talented in math and science, since they can get higher paying jobs in other fields. This is the biggest...
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    Opening proptrading floor in Europe

    what city are you planning to open in?
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    best way to convert to Euros

    Hi, I'm relocating to Germany and don't want to get killed on the currency conversion. Any suggestions on the best way to convert my dollars to Euros are appreciated. I already have an account with IB. Is my best option just changing my base currency to Euros?
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    10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

    welcome to global income arbitrage. it will be the death of the American middle class. American students are smart enough to realize that the easy money is in finance or management. When there are good opportunities in science and engineering for Americans, they will magically start studying...
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    best routing venue when you want out

    I don't recommend sending stops to NYSE. They seem to only trigger on NYSE prints rather than consolidated prints. I have much better results with stop orders that are held by my broker.
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    U.S. Officially Proposes Ban on ‘Flash’ Trading on Wall Street

    Isn't the Getco dark liquidity pool basically equivalent to a flash order. Getco doesn't allow anyone else to add liquidity to their dark pool. It seems like they are using it to get order flow information. Must be nice for Getco to get asymmetric information.
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    Outstanding article must read.

    I left science and went into trading when I saw how low the salaries were. Most of my classmates that were also interested in basic science went for business jobs for the same reason. I recently learned that foreign post-docs working in the U.S. don't have to pay taxes on their stipends like...
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    edgx problem. The cheapest way to hit nyse quote.

    Can you post the stats you have for average performance? have you looked at ARCX? thanks
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    best routing venue when you want out

    thanks Mike805. what are the slippage numbers for other routes?
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    best routing venue when you want out

    Hello Tomu, here are the answers to your questions. any feedback on where to route is appreciated. 1. Low frequency 2. 100 to 300 share positions 3. trades anything with ADV over 100,000 shares 4. Assent/Anvil 5. NYSE only 6. above $6 7. Speed. I want out immediately with minimal...
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    best routing venue when you want out

    For a black box I'm running, when the system wants to get out of a position immediately, I'm routing the order to EDGX as a marketable limit order. EDGX has been ok, but I'm not sure if this is the best method, or if I would be better off going with another venue such as BATS. I trade a...
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    German real estate

    this is off topic, but some of you have lived in Berlin. I'm considering moving there. Do you know of any good trading arcades or prop firms?
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    NYSE MOO Fills Worse Since 11/1/07?

    Is there a web site that lists the composite open and the NYSE open?
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    oil ETFs

    thanks for the link
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    oil ETFs

    Why does UCR have much less volume then USO, and why does it trade at a substantial discount to its NAV? I'm looking at it because it has an 8.45% discount to it's NAV, but I haven't traded closed end funds so I don't have any sense as to whether this discount will close quickly or if it will...
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    is Sharpe ratio the best way to measure performance?

    Are there any accepted performance metrics that do not take into account the risk free rate or a benchmark return? Subtracting the risk free rate makes sense for a calculating the Sharpe ratio of a fund, but makes little sense for measuring the performance of a day trader as it would...
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    NYSE MOO Fills Worse Since 11/1/07?

    Does anyone have a link explaining the new NYSE opening process? Today I bought CAM with a MOO order, was filled at 99.63, every site I've looked at says the open was 99.15. Brutal slippage
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    Finding news on selected stocks

    I have a Briefing.com Platinum account, it allows you to create a WatchList of up to 100 tickers, and you can set it up for e-mail alerts whenever there is an article about one of the tickers.
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    is futures prop BS??

    I am looking for Prop futures or futures Arcades, preferably in New York and found this thread. Does anyone have any updated info? What firms would you recommend? What are the typical deals for Prop futures? thanks
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