Recent Content by monstimal

  1. Goldman Sachs Options Error

    Although I hate to even try, I'll play Devil's Advocate here. GS's options trades were cancelled because they were done at "clearly erroneous"...
    Post by: monstimal, Aug 21, 2013 in forum: Wall St. News

  2. Madoff: Don’t let Wall Street scam you, like I did

    I wish they'd stop interviewing this guy. I'll bet he loves giving these interviews. Let him rot with zero attention. He's not special. He's just...
    Post by: monstimal, Jun 5, 2013 in forum: Wall St. News

  3. Trading Interview Questions

    I think about this "internet effect" a lot because you see it on almost every forum. I think the fact that internet forums are anonymous and one...
    Post by: monstimal, Jun 2, 2013 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. Who To Follow on Twitter for Market Chatter?

    Just from the breaking news viewpoint rather than chatter, the one twitter account I've seen really move stocks (for now) is @CitronResearch. I'm...
    Post by: monstimal, Apr 2, 2013 in forum: Trading

  5. a question about MatLab function--"highlow()" and relative functions.

    I don't have the financial toolpack so I can't experiment with this but looking at the MATLAB help stuff, I think you should put the date vector...
    Post by: monstimal, Mar 21, 2013 in forum: App Development

  6. FAS and FAZ

    XLF is based off S&P's Financial Index and FAS is Russel 1000 Financial, no?
    Post by: monstimal, Mar 15, 2013 in forum: ETFs

  7. Excel skills

    I don't mean this to be a condescending or snide internet comment, we all have our strengths and weaknesses, but you used Excel for a job "24/7"...
    Post by: monstimal, Feb 15, 2013 in forum: Options

  8. eSignal 11.5 Releases

    The previous updates past 10.6 have been unusable in my opinion. Does this new one perform better? I don't really care too much about the "look"...
    Post by: monstimal, Feb 11, 2013 in forum: Trading Software

  9. Linux Engineer wondering how skills apply in trading.

    As you say, using sed and awk in this manner is obvious. If that is the skill you are selling, you will not be paid "oodles" for it from "zionist...
    Post by: monstimal, Feb 6, 2013 in forum: Trading Software

  10. Earnings Season M&A

    I see MUSA and ICGE were bought this morning by RS and GOOG respectively. I can't find any stats on this but what are your opinions on this...
    Thread by: monstimal, Feb 6, 2013, 1 replies, in forum: Wall St. News

  11. HFT robots seeing orders before the exchange ?

    Please tell me if I'm wrong I'd like to know, but my understanding is: You can't ask a dark pool what their best bid and offer are. That's what...
    Post by: monstimal, Jan 31, 2013 in forum: Order Execution

  12. HFT robots seeing orders before the exchange ?

    That's not a very "dark" dark pool if you can just ask them what the best bid and offer are.
    Post by: monstimal, Jan 30, 2013 in forum: Order Execution

  13. Nassim Taleb

    Is there anything new in this one? I'm curious about it but refuse to pump any more money at that guy after starting to read "Lecturing Birds on...
    Post by: monstimal, Jan 22, 2013 in forum: Wall St. News

  14. Economics for graduate school- NO Economics background?

    Was going to post the same thing. From the way he wrote the original post it sounds like FE is what he wants. It also sounds to me like his...
    Post by: monstimal, Jan 8, 2013 in forum: Economics