Spot is a firm Rob Merrilees and a few of the old Stafford Trading guys started. It is a pretty good firm, fairly technology focused (but then...
Heh, I should have looked at ET before i went. I stopped by Dubai recently, invited by DME to take a look at what they got (or more precisely,...
For me, the problem with CME Globex FIXFAST feed went away around 11 am CST. So CME took about 3 hrs to fix the problem.
As a CME member, I am experiencing weird market data out of sequences. Same problem does not occur in the legacy MDP/RLC feeds, just the FIXFAST...
I was surprised a few years ago to learn that every year quite a few US citizens renounce their citizenships, for the sole purpose of lower taxes....
I have met Seth a few times between '99 - '02. I have a lot of trouble reconciling my memory of him, as a normal, nice guy, who doesn't flaunt...
Actually things like this happen a lot more frequently than ppl think. I am a firm believer that there are really not many "new trading ideas"...
Well, I am behaving exactly like the ppl in the article. I am a quant trader, and while my p&l stayed positive since the subprime crisis hit...
I love The Economist's "Recession" Index, it tracks the % the "R" word comes up in media. So over the new years, a friend asked me this very...
Heh, well, I do pseudo market making, and I know of quite a few other entities doing so (some are well known, some are not). I suppose I can talk...
I concur with Maverick. As far as I know (which is end of 2007), Schindler is not anywhere near down 90%.
You mean Mortimer with 3D Markets, product called Arch Angel? Well, he has been trying to get that thing off the ground ever since he left Piper....
Yes and no. Becoming and operating a clearing firm is both a fairly complex and not exactly a cheap enterprise It all depends on what product...
I have had some discussion with ppl who are in the same business as RenTech about this. I think RenTech got too greedy (see firms like DEShaw...
First of all, to the original poster. There is nothing wrong with quitting or even stopping for a while. To take a completely different...
Well, I can't speak for anybody else with certainty, but my own automated trading system on the CME futures is trading small as we are going...
It took Maounis this long to file a lawsuit? When will the Bear funds' lawsuit against Merrill PB hit? The reality is that since JPM is the...
I can't speak for anyone else. But I can say that I got wind around 2pm that Fed is going to have an emergency meeting, and at 3:15 or so, I was...
This is going to be a dumb question. What kind of job do you want to apply to, at what level? If it is not trading, what industry?
In terms of RedSky, yeah I met Brent and Stef quite a few times, last about 2 years ago. Brent and Stef cashed out, they hired Fitzsimmons to...
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