I'm not advocating for it, just stating. Sounds like you on your way out of it and I wish you luck. Hope to join soon. Cheers.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/11/20/virtus-high-frequency-legal-battles-against-quant-employees/amp/ Not...
I don't trade options but I think most ligit brokers have good execution nowadays. Getting market data to your strategies in a timely manner,...
Hey, same here. I have a strict policy to NOT add new functionality unless it has potential to pay for itself
Agree with sle and t0ph4t. It all comes down to latency requirements. Not sure how it's less expensive to build everything from scratch. Even if...
So do I understand it correctly that you already have something of your own which you are using to trade live? If so, you must have hacked a large...
I do think there is an edge in it, not blindly of course. One of my favorite books is Profiting with iron condor options by Benklifa. But he is...
It's been said that options premium selling (or any short gamma strategy) is equivalent of "eating like a bird and shitting like and elephant."...
Very nice post! Can you or anyone (@sle?) comment on something that stops me from diving deeper into options? How do you manage overall exposure?...
What does this stand for? Thanks
So what about companies like Quantopian? If you think about it, people who develop strategies on such platforms effectively selling their...
Watch videos from below site to get an idea of using multiple un-correlated strategies together. Many other topics covered as well. Just for...
Oh, I wish it was that simple. Companies spend a lot of money to find the "right" candidate and still end up with "bad" employees. If you are a...
Could be a very rational choice imo. The guy maybe just thinking long term career path. Also being promised 250k of total comp is NOT the same as...
I strongly disagree with you. Coming to US with 0 dollars but most likely with family who cares for you and good education, is not the same as...
Anyone used toptal, or are they pricing themselves to cater to larger companies?
I was talking from an immigrant's perspective. Being born into poverty is a different issue, but still doubt there is country which offers more...
Not meaning to pick a fight, but which country in your opinion has higher economic mobility than US?
What do you think about bidding/offering at the theoretical option price (assuming its within bid/ask)? Let's say I want to automate my orders,...
Just my opinion - don't try to get best people, get good enough to get things going. Good article on this subject below. The main idea,...
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