There is a lot. And Globex fills of around 30ms is pretty avg, actually sounds a little high, I should know, I am a Merc member, heh. These...
Here is the original ML / Cap Gemini Report. $1M really isn't anything these days. A 800 ft apt in NYC cost that much, the same apt would be...
Rich Marin probably wishes he was still running some dot-com incubator now, heh. I was pretty shocked when Rich took that job in BSAM, but I...
It depends on what you eventually want to do. If you want to eventually be a trader / portfolio manager ... For you to find a non-IT related...
It is not just Bear. BofA, LaBranche, etc, etc, are all having enormous difficulties. LAB have been looking for a head of automated market...
In a way, figures like the ones in the magazine (which I dislike) is misleading. Since in all of the 10 funds, the principal has significant...
Something like this would work in C, it returns the 3rd friday for any given month / year. Let me see about a Java equivalent: #define...
Heh, how is Russell W doing these days? I know him quite well from my days in Chicago. Him and I had a bottle of merlot about 2 years ago (the...
In a way, that is not surprising. From what I have seen / talked to, there is definitely a morale problem in CBOT these days. Since it has...
I just happen to use something that I am familiar with, I was a part of the ANSI C++ V3 committee, so there are a lot of features of C++ that I...
A topic somewhat similar to this one was discussed earlier this year, the posts there might be helpful....
Am I reading this right? Basically you are asking the manager, via co-investing his / her own funds, to provide guarantee against a 10% loss. Or...
Since I have never traded "retail" prop, and I have a significant amount of respect for Don's reputation in the business (I still hear stories...
Somebody made an interesting point that banks do not have the best technology and the smaller firms actually have a competitive advantage. I...
I guess I will stick my head in. First of all, to get a very low latency, your broker must have direct point to point connections to all of your...
From a CME memo to members: 9. Will I have access to CBOT products on CME Globex®? We expect to move electronically traded products...
Wow, finally CME bought somebody, and it is a big one. Now bets will be one when eCBOT the system will be history, merged into Globex. I am...
While the release does not make it explicit, but this type of colo setup is clearly targetted at automated trading systems, which will benefit the...
At the end of the day, it is inner peace that all it matters. It is what you value the most, and then maximize that value. I spent 12 years on...
I am. More details in an old post: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1032410&highlight=CME#post1032410 My system is...
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