Journey from investment bank to independent automated trader

Quote from TSGannGalt:

:eek: You know that you're admitting that you stole their code with the phrase above. :eek:

I can now see why you don't last at your work. You present yourself as a hotshot (there's nothing wrong with that... really) but your quality of what you mention doesn't catch up. Like your last post about programming a tick data test engine. You go out claiming like you're a hotshot programmer but you don't have the basic knowledge as an IT. I can imagine how you sold yourself to get hired bloating your skills to a clueless boss and all that expectations are backlashing with expectations you created, stressing you out.

Another thing about this whole HF trading you're "experimenting" is...

Experimenting??? Where are all the tests? Are you running any? You claim yourself as a systematic trader and you're "experimenting"??? Where are all the tests? What is there to experiment? If you have any reasonable professional experience as a Quant developing job, you should know that you do what you test.

Tradestation??? Aren't you supposedly a hotshot financial IT? Where's your own FIX OMS/OES? You should at least be trading with IB using with FIX or API?

Everything little thing you mention starts to make me very skeptical. I kept quiet but you're asking for it...

(I still have myself on ignore... I saw my other post using my "Baron" alias... ...

NOOOOO... stop all the voices!!!! rAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH Stop talking you me and you!!!!

It's a small industry.
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The kid's got an engineering degree. Do you have a degree, and if so, in what? I can tell you right now, computer engineering is tough shit; my undergrad and grad degrees are in EE and one doesn't learn "IT" garbage in such a cirriculum (its like teaching a pro-golfer how to set a tee).

As far as I can tell, he never claimed to be some IT expert. Also, my wife is a lawyer who knows copyright/IP law, so far, lolatency is alright and has done nothing wrong, unless he signed a contract stating otherwise.

Lately, other than your occasional moment of semi-brillance, you've come across as an arrogant prick. Maybe its time to rethink your goals in life. Picking on some ambitious kid is a bit lame, don't you think?

Mike
 
Quote from CloroxCowboy:

Wow...how do you unsubscribe from a thread?
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Its an intelligence test; if you can't figure out how to unsubscribe your punishment is being forced to follow the thread.
 
Quote from GTS:

Its an intelligence test; if you can't figure out how to unsubscribe your punishment is being forced to follow the thread.
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I think the punishment is too harsh in this case...
 
Quote from asiaprop:

again there are lightyears between asking to share general info
and pushing to reveal a specific strategy. I very clearly did the former.

I got frustrated because LoLatency pointed to some other threads that had obviously (to him and me and all others) nothing at all to do with high frequency strats.

LoLatency outed himself as someone who took others' codes and ideas without their permission, nothing I made up.

Re Atticus's posts I never ducked, I simply showed him his limits when he thought he could outsmart a guy to give away his bread and butter.

I think if you re-read what I added to Atticus's posts, what I wrote about China, and now here you will find out that most is based on logic and factual data, and I never made up stuff to bash anyone.
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Ha, I was in no way interested in your vol-bets or strategy.
 
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Man, you so got busted. It's clear to anyone reading the thread that you use two aliases and that you are now trying to cover it up by talking to yourself. How absurd is that?
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I'm asiaprop.

Just look at it this way...

TSGannGalt is the systematic trader side of one guy.
asiaprop is the Options discretionary trading side of the same guy.
 
Quote from CloroxCowboy:

Wow...how do you unsubscribe from a thread?
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You can't. You have to deal with all my paranoia.

You understand that this whole thread is me talking to myself all along.
 
Quote from Mike805:

The kid's got an engineering degree. Do you have a degree, and if so, in what? I can tell you right now, computer engineering is tough shit; my undergrad and grad degrees are in EE and one doesn't learn "IT" garbage in such a cirriculum (its like teaching a pro-golfer how to set a tee).

As far as I can tell, he never claimed to be some IT expert. Also, my wife is a lawyer who knows copyright/IP law, so far, lolatency is alright and has done nothing wrong, unless he signed a contract stating otherwise.

Lately, other than your occasional moment of semi-brillance, you've come across as an arrogant prick. Maybe its time to rethink your goals in life. Picking on some ambitious kid is a bit lame, don't you think?

Mike
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I know TSGannGalt in person and he was bringing all a whole lotta $$$$ for the firm we worked together at. You have no idea who you're talking to...

Thank you Mike. I know that that I am not a criminal. There's nothing wrong with what I did. I only have low work ethics and everyone in finance is a theif anyways.

Seriously, this moronic ambitious kid is spamming me with PMs threatening me and sending all these voodoo curses... This kid wants this thread to go down so I'm only helping him!!!!

I'm a medical student in Europe and have traded part time for a few years. I'll be finished with school this year and can't decide if I should go for clinical medicine (with absolutely no chance of trading part time for at least 5 years) or if I should go full-time trading. This is a very difficult decision for me. Did any of you give up a career (medicine or other) for trading? Did you regret doing so?
I am only semi-successful with trading (but I do make a profit), if I had to do it full-time with the pressure to make a living, it would be a different situation and I don't know if I could cope/or at least, if that would negatively affect my trading.On the other hand, if I commit all my time to trading, I might be more successful.
I love the freedom of the trader, and I hate the lack of freedom in working in a hospital (I actually think that only other doctors can truely understand what I mean, it really is bad).
I don't know if you can help, I hope some of you went through the same decision process as I am in now, and it would be great to know if you have been successful or not. A role model would be worth a lot.

Thanks for your time!
 

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Ha, I was in no way interested in your vol-bets or strategy.
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Liquidity sucks. If you lift 20 lots the market disappears for up to 30 minutes. The spread is huge.
 
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Its an intelligence test; if you can't figure out how to unsubscribe your punishment is being forced to follow the thread.
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No, that's not what it means.

How many paying subscribers?
 
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