So, here they are. There is little volume there, but I already hear that hedgies want to get crossed on the exchange instead of OTC and there are...
I am trying to clean up my closets, so a bunch of books that are/were related to my life in finance have to make room for other stuff. All of this...
All right, people, in response to a few private messages (I have replied, mostly), here is a public announcement. There is no miracle strategy out...
I wounder if anyone else has bumped into this problem or maybe one of the sales reps would chime in. Apparently, for a number of...
I am looking for a source of historical intraday data for futures and stocks, something like 1 min or 5 min bars. Preferably it would be some sort...
Given the kind of trading that I do, I keep bumping into the same issue when analyzing and improving my strategies. There are theoretical or...
I noticed there were a few discussions about options newsletters, mostly with negative reviews. What exactly is their business model? Is it that...
I am try to buy a server to use for data storage and statistical models. Since I am not a great hardware maven, I could use some advice. Here are...
I am trying to build an infrastructure for detecting relative value opportunities in options. The idea is to make the infrastructure...
The "overtrading" thread got me thinking on an interesting question: When establishing an option spread (e.g. a calendar), do you think of one...
I am going to a broker party tonight dressed as an Occupy Wall Street protester and trying to think what would be a good sign to carry with me....
I will say right away that I am a true urbanite that was genetically engineered to hate every place of outside of Manhattan. Also, for the past 6...
So, here we go. The idea is to discuss general analysis methods, possible structures to look at, maybe even exchange code and spreadsheets. Given...
as a technical indicator that gives you some sort of probability-weighted stock price levels for the near future? E.g. if I have a recent price...
I have taken a job overseas about three months ago, but don't want my registrations (7/63/55/3) to lapse. Are there any shops out there that...
I am pretty new to automated trading, but am trying to set up a simple real-time trading system. There are 14 securities I am planning to trade,...
Does anyone know of an options brokerage that is based on Bermuda or some other "removed" (from the UK/US perspective) location? The features that...
!! angry rant follows !! Ok, imagine the following hypothetical situation. A senior trader gets a talking-to from the head of the department....
Get a hang of the following story: Part 1, Tragedy: A new OTC step-up cap trade is consumated, where if the LIBOR rate goes above X, the seller...
Is anyone privately trading these? In general, is anyone doing any option-based correlation arb? Correlation arb is a pretty popular institutional...
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