I suppose you could do it through a retail operation but it's not in the same ballpark as what goes on among institutions and hedge funds as the...
Last Thursday was one of the best yielding days in carry trade history so it's clearly not over yet. BUT The Friday-Monday period before it...
Would contest that prop shops damage your CV all that badly. most of the people I used to work with are now at places like Morgan Stanley,...
Choosing a prop firm over an i-bank is like saying you've considered a job as chief polisher to Eva Longoria's nipples but decided to do teaching...
you can overlay the profit curves on backtests for several strategies on CQG. there is a London based consultancy company called Oasis who can...
a good idea is to get personal recommendations eg, I went to a fund management expo and had a buffet with some analysts and investment managers. I...
I dunno how much of an impact your being of African origin has made on the proceedings.... but I do know that I am Irish and I applied for...
position that goes against you. eg long and it goes down, these guys would just keep buying.
Martingale system is based on "Gambler's Fallacy" that if one event happens it is less likely to happen again. This is stupid enough on a...
When I worked for prop shops people were sacked every second week, whole graduate groups would go every June and many others would leave within...
what will I do? the same things I did about 5 weeks ago.
I agree with the 'bove. I very much depends on the training program offered. look into stuff like employee retention rate, products traded (more...
I find that one often leads the other, and given that they are so correlated, that was always a good play.
the belief that I have no weakness
I assume that properly optimised means backtested many times with the variables subtly altered, and on a 3d chart it gave a smooth profit curve...
short brent oil on a 10 day low close at $71.35 exit at just over $59 on a 10 day high close
used to do dry fly as a teenager in Ireland, freshwater, mostly trout. haven't done it it in ages, looking forward to retirement in about 40 years....
Rotter is a Czech, I think he grew up in Germany. he now lives in Switzerland. he used to work here in Dublin. he started off as a clerk on DTB...
bloody good question. in 02 the bund was an easy trade. then the order book went crazy and you couldn't read it, so I switched to systematic...
hmmm vix could be at a low because in the atmosphere of demand for more alpha (eg loads being poured in hedge funds which have higher alpha) risk...
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