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Thanks for answers mates! As some pointed, the proplem's not in the fiat/crypto exchanges but the crypto/crypto exchanges - the places where the real excitement is. So looks like answer is indeed cross your fingers and hope tether don't crack while you're asleep or stick it in the two majors and...

Hey folks, long time no chat... So I've recently (since december of course!) branched out into crypto from regular futures and forex. A question I have for the day traders who are entering and exiting positions in alts and even the majors like BTC and ETH throughout the course of the day. What...

Generally non competes mean that the company is paying you a comfortable amount while you're under that period to sit at home. At least that's the way in banking and hedge funds. Is it different in the prop trading world? They pay you nothing and you can't work in your field? That doesn't sound...

Sounds like you're a PM at a fund/part of a fund. Outside of hiring people you trust and/or stringent non-competes the only real way is to trade it yourself. Or you go automated. What you might think of as theft is what the execution trader would call 'learning experience'. Every strategy on...

Without addressing whether ISM today should be interpreted as good or bad, $ down from risk off today. IOW unwinds of leveraged directional crowded trades.

Just to point out, within the exact context of the article posted, 'rent seeking' has been explicitly defined as "Instead of creating wealth, rent seekers simply transfer it — from others to themselves". So no value added however tiny. Is the professor correct on an objective basis, I don't...

Wouldn't want to put words in GAT's mouth but what he is saying is that by trying to time your equity curve you have basically paid to overlay a de-facto put option on top of your original strategy. I have seen such overlays being done by management on systematic strategies but its more of an...

Seeing more flows into bond-ey type stuff, for example we recently went into a fixed income relative val fund. Cherry picking yield extraction ventures seem to be getting more play, as is typical in this stage of a cycle. Don't see that much going into lever up beta to the max type ventures at...

Sounds like you have some kind of a long bias AND long vol/volume in this setup? At least thats what I would guess based on the info. Would you be able to prove to the investor such is not the case? Because if so, I can't imagine an institutional investor getting into such a profile at this...

sorry, poorly worded post. I guess I'm just wondering if you use limit orders to trade digitals and what kind of fills do you see and get if so.

Hi, Resting or do you find that you have to cross on this class?

Mainly because in this specific instance the detail doesn't really matter and I don't want to get sidetracked into a discussion on the merit of the position. Why do you think it is required to mention the underlying in the context of the discussion.

It's a spread sure. As to whether it simple. Maybe to some, maybe not to others, I dunno. It has a otm long put a few months out and short a call spread farther out. I don't think the details are important here but the gist of the matter is that I just want vol exposure on this trade. No...

Currently I have some long skew, long vol, delta flat trades on a popular ETF . It may work or it may not work, but I'm not even sure how I'd even start to set them up if I didn't have some basic ideas where the greeks generally were. If constancy of value were a criteria all financial...

by sitting on the flow...

To be sure I won't devote much time to what is certain to be an endless discussion, but here we go for a start. These guys found there was 'some value' within a certain time period. Whether that 'value' can be monetized and if that time period phenomenon still persists I leave to others. I am...

I work in a financial institution. For years, I priced and risk managed (quant) various esoteric derivatives for hedge funds. However, never made a boat load of money or anything. I think it was my own lack of ambition at that point which was to blame for that. But I am tired now. Cannot handle...

Having moved money around globally all I can say is that you have to be careful to follow local rules. If things are not as expected then a case could disappear down a bureaucratic rabbit hole for who knows how long. Seems pretty clear what happened here.

ah to be single again... ;-)

ha ha yes, that's what I was thinking about. Just wondering if the hardware geeks have a more elegant solution. but yeah, maybe it is as simple a no brainer as that. Brain's fried tonight trying to line up 7 years of eurusd and usdjpy data!