if he's holding up to the day before ex-div, the dividend has already been priced in. this is why stocks gap by their div amount on their ex-div...
that's definitely the one i was thinking of (/vb). would be great to see that back. thanks baron.
not being able to see the first 5 or so threads for each sub-forum makes this forum pretty non user friendly. reason: took about 5 seconds to...
i'll do you one better: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3063-globalEconomicCalendar.html
i heard they didn't want to deal with all the compliance and one of the partners was going into another venture so they decided to unwind it. they...
keep your job, trade the hang seng and/or kospi when you get home from work. if you truly do have an edge, and since it seems to like futures that...
don't want to take away from any of hft's future answers, but thought i could give you a real quick answer. hft trades for an hft firm, so the...
what are they pricing that at?
it's not nanex's clock that was off [for the fed data analysis piece the did that you're referring to]. it's that they use SIP timestamps for...
while stat-arb is a pretty abused term in trading (as can be witnessed in previous posters responses), wikipedia actually does a pretty good job...
equinix isn't a technology, it's a datacenter company. they rent rackspace (for servers/switches you provide) at facilities they manage across the...
which vendor is quoting you 6k for cts/cqs/utp raw feed? should be closer to 2k and they should be able to get you a day's worth of data and a...
how does your firm handle pre-trade risk? do you get a fixed allocation, and then are limited via a software routing library? or via a hardware check?
right, but nowadays, can you even be competitive with a $5k server and $5k/mo connection fees? curious what you think the minimum cost to entry is...
what are the monthly costs your firm is seeing? and what do you think the outlay would be for a new entrant? thanks
interesting... is that a function of the current environment you think (low vol)? i would have thought a lot of these groups would be interested...
ok, that's interesting, thanks. is that mid-7fig target a typical minimum these firms want to see? you know of any firms similar to an HTG on...
just repeating the above for another look, thanks...
good thread. thanks for providing such high quality info. have a couple of q's: 1) hft firm's offering backing/support... what's the typical...
It still IS optional, and should stay that way. If I want to pool money with other traders into a retail or prime acct (without getting a 7),...
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