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prop firms (where the firm backs you and you get a split; like mav has said) have been around chicago for a long time. there were oconnor and crt...
sports and poker may have been popular over 10 years ago. now its mathematical intuition and programming.
:confused: your kidding right? maybe you meant 2500 which is still low
market makers are the ones losing in options and getting out of the business. options are one of the places where a retail account can make good...
you mean an OMS? you could write one yourself but softwaer like TT or tws provides all that for you. how did you write an algo?
same answer, either. RTSJ or anything hard realtime (guarantees) is more for embedded devices like controls on a plane or brakes on a car....
either. you dont need RTSJ. 2-3 years down the road they will both have comparable performance. Keep in mind that you probably will not be writing...
i worked at a firm trying to get impulse-C to work. never got anywhere. does anyone actaully use FPGA
heres a paper Dealing with the Inventory Risk Olivier Gu´eant∗, Charles-Albert Lehalle,∗∗Joaquin Fernandez...
"Millions of traders depend on the accuracy of exchange timestamps -- especially after bad timestamps were found to be a key factor in the...
1) connect to the feed 2) usually you have to implement some method like onUpdate(Data data) where the data comes in 3) in the body of that...
are you automated, profitable, and intraday? if so, almost any firm would do some kind of deal with you.
are you looking for a job that has a title of "trader" ?
it doesnt look like you know what you're asking for. are you only interested in how much the option has lost in value due to time?
i agree with those who say it comes down to money. In an ideal situation its cool work for a lot of money (trading systems). Then its crap...
VIX went down about $1 yesterday. you cant only look at delta
if you're using FIX, the agressor tag will tell you :cool:
you can do this with IB and the esper library http://esper.codehaus.org/
i use hdf5 for futures. one file per symbol per day capturing all messages (N levels deep). for single stocks you would need a lot of space. As...
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