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  1. How are investment bank traders' bonuses calculated?

    Professional traders working in IB's make salaries somewhere between $100k-$140k depending on their seniority. Any trader (or the desk...
    Post by: vita, Apr 5, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  2. backtest for 3 years, blow up in 3 days,

    IMO, the most robust way to backtest a systematic strategy is to do the following. I will give a simple example later to clarify. 1) use a...
    Post by: vita, Mar 24, 2009 in forum: Risk Management

  3. Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman

    The combination of naked shorts and long CDS's is even more destructive. Check out these Financial Sense Newshour interviews. The July2008 one...
    Post by: vita, Mar 19, 2009 in forum: Wall St. News

  4. Measuring data transfered

    I'd suggest NetMeter. I found it robust and free from spywares, etc. I only used the stable version 1.1.3....
    Post by: vita, Mar 17, 2009 in forum: Data Sets and Feeds

  5. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    When I think about several of my friends who are working or worked in hedge funds, I can see the validity of your point here. However, there are...
    Post by: vita, Mar 15, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  6. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    You have a point about the redemption risk in hedge funds. Are there any of prop shops who specialize in Futures?
    Post by: vita, Mar 14, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  7. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    Thanks for the great advice. I realize how difficult it is to trade when your chips are low. But it feels more difficult to lose a great strategy...
    Post by: vita, Mar 14, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  8. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    Thanks for the feedback Anaconda. Most of your points I've already realized in a hard way. About the confidence on a strategy, one needs to...
    Post by: vita, Mar 12, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  9. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    I admire your tenacity. As stated in an earlier post, it all boils down to whether we have "full confidence" in our strategies. It's hard to jump...
    Post by: vita, Mar 12, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  10. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    You should be a trading coach. I love the optimism. I congratulate you for the mind power.
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  11. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    That is exactly one of the offers I got going like "we are a team here, we will give you a programmer to help you "automate" your strategy and...
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  12. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    You surprisingly summarized my entire thought process in one paragraph. I know that there must be a few exceptional minds who made it trading with...
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  13. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    Thanks for the advice. One comment about 20k hedge fund layoffs is that most of these guys are not PM's or traders, they're compliance officers,...
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  14. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    I agree. Laid off traders regroup and form new (but small) funds. Any systematic strats with no overnight risk and a track record of ~20% &...
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  15. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    Appreciate your objective suggestions. They're well taken. Thanks.
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  16. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    Thanks for the tip for the legal issues. And you're also right about avoiding more leverage. But I think you're slightly more optimistic than I am...
    Post by: vita, Mar 11, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  17. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    Great and concise words of wisdom. Thank you. I was warned by several professionals about 2 things which can go wrong when joining a hedge fund....
    Post by: vita, Mar 10, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  18. need advice to whether to join a hedge fund or a prop shop or to go solo?

    I am in a crossroad that am sure is familiar to many of you. I have to decide how to move forward from here. I left my quant position in wall st...
    Thread by: vita, Mar 10, 2009, 42 replies, in forum: Professional Trading

  19. Hedge Funds May Cut a Record 20,000 Jobs as Losses Erode Fees

    Only those hedge funds which had the partners' skin in the game are legit. The rest are ponzis. Remember, the investment banks with brokerage...
    Post by: vita, Mar 10, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading

  20. What are typical annual returns?

    Return is not enough. Hedge funds like MLP or Schonfeld won't care if one had 2000% if Sharpe ratio is low, drawdown high and the strategy is...
    Post by: vita, Mar 7, 2009 in forum: Professional Trading
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