Most of these guys are Engineers :) New breed of elite traders are all Math, Physics, Quant Finance type guys.
Its natural for most i-banks to stake a minority stake in these firms as they are already doing business with them via providing prime brokerage...
We've been using CEP/ESPER with great success over the past few months. Steam of events "order messages" are sent to a risk monitoring engine,...
I'm glad to see Timmay capatalizing on his fame :) Rumor has it Timmay is going to be FOX's answer to CNBC's Cramer :) Go Timmay!!!!!!
All traders are paid with performance there is no "salary" when work at most prop firms.
We also Wombatfs for market data they are if not one of the best IMO but they are also very very expensive. Wombat has a magnitude of feed...
I highly doubt it, you could use something like XSim "Exchange Simulator" from Aegis software it might be a little costly but very simple to setup...
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Yeah most are still running brokers are still running FIX 4.2 today the growth area for FAST is mostly the market data people and FIX 5.0 will...
FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL) has announced that the FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXatdl (SM)) has entered its beta phase in preparation...
Let me get this straight if I develop a new strategy that makes my employer reek in record profits and bring new business into the firm for that...
Heh funny isnt it, probably the same guy on two accounts. I'm still waiting to hear one valid reason on why people working on Wall St....
Most quotes like "They shouldnt be make that kind of money" usually comes from people who have no idea how business works.
I tip my hat to this man, he was definitely under paid, over worked and made the right move. Man I wonder how many Goldie alumni's are now...
Do you have any idea how smart and how hard the average wall streeters work? This is a very naive statement. Jealousy really sucks
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Northern Rock Sells $922 Million of Loans to Lehman (Update1) By Jon Menon Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Northern Rock Plc, Britain's worst-...
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With the GNU C/C++ compiler and the opensource FIX engine - Quickfixengine you can be up and running with little or no time iwth minimal cost.
With C# your pretty much locked into Windows, Sorry Nitro but most trading systems today are developed in Java and C++ running on UNIX systems...
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