I dont think Lightspeed has a fee structure that fits proptrading, I think they're only targeting retail traders (relatively high fee/trade). Too...
Unless you plan on running several slow applications (java) at the same time, any modern pc with 4 gb ram and some modern multicore cpu should do....
Free money ;) People read some books on option pricing and think they can make free money arbitraging :D They don't realize that the hedgefunds...
And then there would be an arb possibility and anyone would take it and the parity would be there again. So your answer is wrong. See one (or two)...
If you take both dividends and holding interest into account, the put indeed should equal the call (put/call parity). As said, this parity not...
I never understood that either. If you keep a blog, you'll always end up handing out more info than you liked, which can be used to reverse...
It's like you buy up some stock with all your buying power and then at the top you say "LOOK MUMMY, I've made a profit !" :D
They said they made most of it on buying their own bonds, so it's mark-to-market. Just wait till they're going to sell, lol.
if that tax passes, it will be the end of the financial industry as we know it.
Hard work ? And then ? You think that there are some 'secret techniques' out there that the pro's dont know ? That if you work hard enough, you'll...
Haha. Seriously, you think that IF a system works, then somebody would sell it ? :D Come on, use common sense. If a system works, they wont have...
And the reason why only pro firms make money: * Unlike you, they have big client orders, they can buy on the bid and sell the ask * If an...
Like said, you can get rich with luck as well. But that most probably wont last, since luck doesnt last forever. But without luck, there's just...
If you're that serious about trading options, then here's the best advise anybody can give you: stop trading for yourself, you wont make it on...
Or in other words: option trading used to be a game of knowledge, now it's a game of technology. And unless you have a very, very big IT budget,...
I've been an option Market Maker in Amsterdam for a year (the year before they replaced the floor with computers), I now trade stocks. Anyway,...
Sorry mate, just telling you the way it is, at least WAS, when I was an MM in Amsterdam. Timberhill MM's were called 'robots' and that was because...
Dumb = you don't need any brains to do the job: HO does the thinking for you. Smart = you need to pass the most difficult screening tests in the...
also, there's no such thing as 'the' market maker, just as there's no such thing as 'the' daytrader. MM's would come in all kinds of flavours,...
There was an article in the december issue of 'the economist', asking the exact same question. In short, they said that with some advanced...
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