Do the 20% of predictable periods comprise trend continuation or reversal? If reversal, then it's "easy". In other words, it is 12:01, the...
I kind of agree. So his fund lost money on a position. Big deal - lots of hedge funds lose money on lots of positions. Recently some funds...
Hey Brandon, hope you're well... Anyway, my question is: WTF???!!!! They actually sued you for saying O'Neil influenced you? What a...
There is a guy named Balyasny who was a prop trader in the late 90s / early 00s at Schonfeld. He now has his own hedge fund, last time I heard....
Actually, corporate bond yields are very low compared to equity yields (eg, for equity yield, try the inverse PE ratio of earnings to price, or...
I don't view this as market manipulation. I rather would call it "extreme market making with a speculative bent". Here is why it isn't market...
I have to say that although it is unfortunate that your losses were so big that day, as an outside observer for whom Market Wizards was one of my...
About 2-3 years ago I backtested a covered call strategy and found very similar results to what the GATEX fund or the CBOE buy-write index would...
well in SAC's heyday of awesome returns (as opposed to just really really good) didn't they insist on getting analyst calls first? and...
cool, Pabst - just googled Marquette - looks interesting... I like how they describe themselves as "liquidity providers".
I have heard of other interesting bond pit folks other than Baldwin - Gelber, Kenyon, Steidlmeyer... I am sure there are other legends... any...
Did this group of professional traders work in banks? Sounds like they looked for arbitrage opportunities (could be in a statistical sense...
I have been following this back & forth and I must agree with this point. If there is some trader at Swift or any other firm grossing +100K per...
market facilitations/crosses in equities? or something else?
So if I extrapolate that to my experience in electronic equities, the analog would be - and correct me if I'm wrong... Stock XYZ is bid 400...
sorry, who's "mnx" ?
How do all these young guys (assuming mostly male, including yourself) make money at Swift these days? Liquidity providing? Jumping on...
Not sure about that. The market-makers at IBs know the future "sort of" due to order flow, and they may position around that to make money. But...
Great story Pabst. What does "knew how to trade uncompetitive" mean? When you say "sleazy" and "steal" - you mean legal "theft" basically...
I'm not as much of a Wizards "groupie" now so I probably won't try to contact Trader Vic unless I one day invest in his funds or something. I...
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