Frankly I wouldn't do either of the suggested. If you have a 500K account, that is plenty enough to trade as a personal account. If you would like...
You have a donkey? Now...Why am I not surprised.
Guys, it wouldn't work anywhere, first of all because it would disrupt the balances of supply in demand in such a way that it would make our...
Guys, Any of you guys use a particular model to incorporate stochastic volatility in models used to value commodity options prices (especially...
Hence the volatility smile...
SIG is a solid company, a few come work at SAC.
You guys are forgetting my good friend Ari. He writes some good books too. Ari Kiev is the name.
You at a prop shop nitro ?
I do not like the CPI as an inflation gauge, Greenspan also has denounced its limitations, he prefers consumer expenditure as a measure of...
Come on guys, a bloomie is not that expensive, it's like...what, 1500 bucks a month before real time exchange fees. It's really worth it. and if...
Forwards and spot are pretty much the same thing except forwards are typically used for long term bets on commodities. (Currencies included),...
Exactly, most traders at large hedge funds must have their orders worked by the execution desk. You think SC actually places order for stocks...
Reread my comments. It was not vs inflation but vs exchange rates. I was just saying that owning commodities is a way to hedge against currency...
We are getting way off topic here. The question was not, what is my risk adjusted return, it was what is my return. We could discuss Sharpe...
That is incorrect. If dollars fall, gold rises. Your best bet to hedge yourself against depreciation of currencies is to own commodities. Since...
It isn't true, I was confused as to the intent of the question asked. In absolute returns, and in accounting standards, returns as you will see...
Big phat bong is all i gotta say.
Basically, you have to talk in real rates of change. If you want to put 50% of 100K in a money market in dollars; you have to: 1) Take the...
You forgot to get a locate on your short? That's bad news, you have to take the heat on that one unfortunately, buy back the outstanding short...
Depends on probabilities, they eventually will happen, just like LTCM went down hard because they didn't take into account the mere possibility...
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