BrentRitterbeck

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Larry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?(youtube.com)
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
ErrantX, I don't think slides are a problem. They are simply one more medium teachers may use to communicate knowledge. Now, they are certainly not a replacement for actual textbooks, but they do have their uses. I do think you hit on a v
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
For me, BoA back to school. Technically BoA didn't fail, but I viewed the recession as time to go back and get graduate credentials. I am currently working on a MSFE.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Is there any other reason latency matters? Let's say I have a statistical model that is able to identify and exploit statistically significant price deviations. Furthermore, let's say someone has a very similar model. If I'm able to exe
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
How would you model something like 9/11? There are too many random events that occur every trading day. Some are good. Some are bad. The best we can really hope for is that we notice things are going to hell before everyone else does.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Yes, some of them did screw up, the same way that early physicists screwed up. Quantitative finance, as we know it, is still a very young field. There are going to be hiccups along the way. Knowledge is not developed in a vacuum. We had
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Not all quant work deals with high-frequency trading.
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Google probing possible inside help on attack(news.yahoo.com)
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
"Estimating betas from nonsynchronous data" by Myron Scholes and Joseph Williams in Journal of Financial Economics, December 1977, pgs. 309-327. Abstract is below. Nonsynchronous trading of securities introduces into the market model a pot
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
So please explain how China's censorship is fundamentally different. Does not a sovereign nation have the right to control things that may be fundamentally destabilizing to the country as a whole? I know I'm playing devil's advocate here,
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Hmmm... Google must be the market leader and making a profit in Australia.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Oh no! A useless iPod will now cost twice as much because Apple can no longer exploit an entire nation! I think that's a step in the right direction.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Yeah, so you give it to a government who is reviewing it for security problems. More than likely the NSA and CIA also have the source code for Windows.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Yeah, North Korea, Iran, and Afghanistan also have all of the source code of Linux. What is your point?
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
This has to be one of the best exchanges I have ever seen. I don't think I have laughed that hard in quite a long time.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Sorry about the downvote. It was a mouse slip. It should have been a +1.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
I responded to your statement with a very valid argument. (1) It's business in a huge market that American companies are not forbidden to do business with. (2) You are implying that Microsoft should not do business with China, and I believe
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
I am just pointing that giving a tool to someone you KNOW oppresses others is very different from selling to a neutral buyer. If you want to make it about politics, then so be it. How about we discuss the practices of the U.S. government
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
You want to single Microsoft out on this one? There are millions of companies, both private and public that do business with the Chinese government. As for your comments about sanctions, my comment was actually not about China at all but r
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Really? This is like saying that a company that makes guns is responsible when someone takes a life with one of them. When have you ever produced perfect software?
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
It says Arcata (that would be California) right in the corner and the date is January 9, 2010.
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
I use to work at Banc of America Investment Services, the brokerage arm of Bank of America. One of the things that automatically would shut down a phone broker was a rude customer. I can attest that the best way to go is to be as polite a
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Right now, I am writing a trading system using Trading Technologies' API. In my MSFE program we use XTrader to do a lot of our simulated trading. I thought it would be interesting challenge to create a black box to bone up on my C# skills
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
I second this. I have a quantitative finance background. I use C, C++, C#, MATLAB, and Python. MATLAB and Python are primarily for prototyping ideas. C and C++ are primarily used when I'm working with Linux. C# is exclusively used when
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Well, to start, if I could get correlation data from Yahoo/Google Finance that would be a great. In addition to that, if I could get my hands easily on data concerning pending lawsuits, better industry data, and better regression tools (th
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
I am a huge fan of finance. I used to collect assets from other banks for accounts I opened, and I always loved looking at the old stock certificates. By far, the most amazing certificate I have ever seen is one from Disney. It's a piece
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Have you ever used Bloomberg or Reuters? Google/Yahoo Finance are far from useful for anything but an overview of a company. The service I am talking about would be aimed at more professional users.
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I got Monopoly City, an old Chase Manhattan stock certificate, and a mint condition 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar note.
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As of right now, I can find out a lot of information about a company by paying for the data from a data provider like Bloomberg or Reuters. This data, however, should be free and well-organized. I would like to build a search engine that i
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by BrentRitterbeck 17y ago
Life often ends unexpectedly. I seriously doubt I could time the cash flows to expire at the exact moment I expire. EDIT: I am absolutely certain I could not time the cash flows to expire at the exact moment I expire.

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