Recent Content by ZeroSigma

  1. 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    But why FTT? I wish those predictions of yours were a bit more... green;) I mean how about the carbon tax option? So Lewandowski is the new...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Aug 10, 2010 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  2. Neeed Help i'm a newbie

    Call that a tuition fee in the university of trading. The anecdotal dropout rate among short term traders is amazingly high (in some estimates...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Aug 9, 2010 in forum: Professional Trading

  3. Programming Jobs in Finance at RenTec

    ... that can be a distinct advantage;) But only in a general case, not in this one;). Simons incidentally seems to be expanding his operations...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Aug 9, 2010 in forum: Professional Trading

  4. HFT orders revealed

    ...the evidence of a widespread (in the US) use of the liquidity holes technique by HFT bots in order to obtain price improvements at the entire...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Aug 7, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  5. IB : the end of excessive messaging?

    From the perspective of U.S. retail traders that's probably true, given the amount of competition, which has completely commoditized U.S....
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 25, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. Financial time series analysis for HF equity trading - part time research

    .. looks like your thesis covered selling (yourself) short... Aren't you a bit overqualified? Ever considered relocating from India (or wherever...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 23, 2010 in forum: Automated Trading

  7. 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    So "Finance experts call for 'Tobin tax' on foreign exchange trades" Who exactly? I notice experts don't have their own publications, but they do...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 19, 2010 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  8. IB : the end of excessive messaging?

    Remember how long they have resisted providing you the opening quote? Well, I'd rate this volume display 'bug' as a minor inconvenience (on par...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 16, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  9. IB : the end of excessive messaging?

    It is quite likely that the calculation formula used by IB is more sophisticated than we think. Order type and its special fields may be factored...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 14, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  10. 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Good to see the European Sir Humphrey on our side (perhaps unsurprisingly, see e.g....
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 11, 2010 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  11. IB : the end of excessive messaging?

    At the risk of sounding shill-like: its not their fault... those 3 modifications (and 1 submission) per 1 execution are a tragically low volume...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 9, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. IB : the end of excessive messaging?

    I've recently learned to my rather innocent surprise that as a market maker you can turn over 10% of the exchange annual volume and never need to...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 9, 2010 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    That would create perverse incentives for the very thing social engineers want to curb: gambling. The size per order would increase, directional...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 6, 2010 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  14. 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    [img] "George Osborne says he wants to look at stamp duty on shares". Source: BBC News...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 4, 2010 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  15. Successful Swing traders, how do you get past this ?

    Surprisingly many. Error-free execution of complex orders under conditions of human stress, when most true opportunities occur. The synergy of the...
    Post by: ZeroSigma, Jul 2, 2010 in forum: Risk Management