BrentRitterbeck

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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
The magazine aisle of the grocery store comes immediately to mind. :)
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Hollywood is a business just like any other business. While many movies have been made at microbudget levels, most movies are going to cost a studio at least a couple million. Sequals, movies based on other media formats, etc. offer a buil
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I haven't seen it mentioned yet: Make sure whatever you deposit it into doesn't have a lockup provision. The last thing you would want is to need the cash only to have the bank tell you that you will pay a penalty for accessing it early.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
The majority of software developers are employees of corporations. As such they typically receive only a small fraction of the economic benefit derived from the value they create. If I choose to work for myself, then usually I am acceptin
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I usually pay zero attention to commercials. I'm not interested in being sold something while I am trying to relax.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I went without television altogether for quite some time. I have since then experienced both cable and broadcast content. Frankly, I find both services lacking in quality content. The broadcasters seem content on offering mostly reality
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I read the parent's comment differently.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Yeah, I read the article. Naked short selling would have nothing to do with this. The parent ruled out ETFs and substituted naked short selling for the cause. You could view my post as highly sarcastic. EDIT: Maybe I should clarify furt
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Culprit of what? There's nothing wrong with the markets at the moment. They don't go straight up.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
The moon's placement is also such that it's the same size as the sun when viewed from the earth, making total solar eclipses more stunning, and intelligent life viewing them may become a more inquisitive species, and maybe more likely to i
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Get "How to Prove It" by Daniel Velleman.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
We have a huge number of people in this country who are unemployed. Why don't we just redirect the money we give them and their labor towards rebuilding the railroad infrastructure in this country? Seems like a perfectly acceptable use of
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
It's a suggestion. I'm fairly confident they would not get away with firing someone who did not give a high-five after walking through the box. That would never hold up in court. Some people overreact to rather benign issues.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Limit orders are not hidden at all. There's a 200 share bid sitting in the GE order book right now at 14.28 on Yahoo! Finance. There are six orders sitting in the BAC order book on Yahoo! Finance. If they are suppose to be hiding limit o
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
This is taking an argument to the extreme. Placing a red box on the floor does not suddenly turn the whole place into North Korea.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I never said there was no liquidity in the markets before HFT came along. I was making the argument that there is much more liquidity because of high-frequency trading. As a result of this much more liquidity, the markets are more efficie
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Actually, that type of environment sounds like a lot of fun. I've worked on a trading desk before, and I am now doing an internship developing strategy while I finish my MSFE. I didn't realize how much I missed the day to day stuff in a t
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
rjurney, just imagine if you were in an environment that was a little fun every now and then. Wouldn't that be absolutely terrible? I mean all the high-fives and smiles--that would be downright awful!
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I have industry experience as a broker, trader, and currently developing strategies. EDIT: My current position is only an internship for the summer as I finish up my MSFE degree.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
You say that it is essential to crack down on high-frequency trading. On what grounds? The markets function because these firms provide liquidity. If you want to see what happens when these firms stop providing liquidity, you can look at
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
This is similar to me saying that it is unfair for a 6 foot 7 inch person to play offensive tackle in the NFL when I am only 6 ft 1 inch and would like to play the NFL as well. The world is not fair. Some people will have the resources to
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
If you still pay $2 for a share, is that not the going market price? You don't have to submit a market order. If you wanted the shares at $1.92, you could have submitted a limit order. This is all supply and demand; it's just price disco
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
The thing with the flash crash is this: the market dropped 1K points immediately because the computers and their operators refused to provide liquidity when the initial suspicious trades hit the wire. While the event may have been caused
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
One word: liquidity!
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
For all those people that consider this a good idea, have you ever really considered what high-frequency traders do for the market? High-frequency is a significant source of liquidity. Had high-frequency not been place during the financia
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
Stupidity and high speed, just as with cars, is a terrible combination. After a few years in banking, I have learned the following phrase applies well here: Mistakes were made.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
...on my platforms. Text based systems: FBSI, SIS GUI based systems (when not pointing and clicking): Patsystems JTrader<A>, Trading Technologies' XTrader<A> <A> These are systems I have used for personal use but no
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I worked as a trader, and I can confirm that this is not the way trades are hand-entered.
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by BrentRitterbeck 16y ago
I think people may be missing the bigger picture. While this may certainly be the result of a trade error (NB: This has yet to be confirmed), what we did see is a precursor to what may happen should another of the dominoes fall over in Eu

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