So, discretionary analysis? I always figured you as a more "mechanical" trader valuing trades with complex spreadsheets etc...maybe a combination. I'm just trying to understand how exactly you come up with these spesific trades, I assume you monitor several possible ones in Excel and then pick the ones that look good? Then theres the question of what makes a trade look good to you over others...
Sure. I run bloomberg data through lmt-expo.com running on Solaris. Two old Sparc20 boxes are used as I am also using a port of Inventure's Ranger for a native query engine. The only automation I run is on remote market-making. Filling a side manually which triggers an automated offset. The gammas in the RMM positions are very low and the average duration before the "lock" is about 20 minutes. In low vol it's a bit better.
lol, and then trading soft exotics off an Oanda screen? Whom do you try to bs with this? Seriously dude, you are turning more and more into a joker.
Ya, forced the shut-down of their platform for weeks in '08 while they re-tooled their model. Caused Trinitas Cap to junk their entire exotics MMing division: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=122244&highlight=gaming
I trade $50-75K in Oanda touches per month. I arb bits through UBS FX Option Trader. "Soft" exotics? lol, I am not familiar with that term. Clown shoes.
sure, we all understand, never heard such nonsense. My God. You must be the most pretentious show-off on this board. Big mouth beyond imagination, but getting all excited about 3 e-mini S&P futs, trading off Oanda like a true professional. Spare us your bloomberg stories...lol!!! Enough said.