lrm242

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by lrm242 16y ago
1. Use fax. Practically, it is more secure. Given a motivated intruder, it is no less secure than email. 2. Use password protected PDFs. Tell your lawyer friend to use the person's last name and/or DOB (or some equivalently easy to remember
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by lrm242 16y ago
How about: Seven mice HIGH ON METHAMPHETAMINE and forced to listen to The Prodigy died. None of the mine in the group that were given saline and also forced to listen to The Prodigy died. This study speculates that the beat in the aggressiv
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by lrm242 16y ago
This is a fun game and is very challenging. If you apply yourself you can be successful. I would highly suggest picking up the book, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195144708 ) by L
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by lrm242 16y ago
> But I have no damn clue how do I reach the customer base who needs the service but is ignorant towards it. This is the key issue you need to dig into. Everything else is cursory. Don't go randomly talk to customers. Don't do market re
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by lrm242 16y ago
Don't listen to the naysayers and nanny-poos. Be persistent and willing to learn and you'll shift the odds in your favor. This is a personal journey as much as anything else, and only you can walk it. Just the the other day I was talking to
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by lrm242 16y ago
Re-read the last sentence. You're not paying attention.
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by lrm242 16y ago
Ignoring liquidation and acquisition, because they are rarely the goal of a value investor... Dividends do repay investors, but the price always adjusts ex-dividend. A value investor is not happy owning a declining asset even if the dividen
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by lrm242 16y ago
You do realize you're simply repeating commonly held bullshit wisdom, right?
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by lrm242 16y ago
Really? Given the statement above, which boils down to: "buy low and sell high", what's the difference? Generally, market microstructure tells us there are speculators and value investors, both serving a due purpose in the functioning of a
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by lrm242 16y ago
The losses you can receive from buying a stock can be huge. The stock you bought could go to 0.
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by lrm242 16y ago
You don't need anywhere near 5-10mm. You need about 50k.
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by lrm242 16y ago
Personally I just ordered an Asus netbook after being all Apple for 3+ years. I'm going back to Linux... can't stand around and watch the walls close around me.
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by lrm242 16y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1337533
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by lrm242 16y ago
Finally, a decent, well research piece of what might of happened.
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by lrm242 16y ago
First, You can believe anything you want, but I'm surprised you're making such claims since even you admit you have no data to back them up. Second, All "high frequency traders" are not the same. In fact, using the term doesn't really mean
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by lrm242 16y ago
Because your statement stinks of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about how the markets function. It's anti-market populism looking for reinforcement. If you have some data or evidence that institutional players reaped great reward be
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by lrm242 16y ago
This is exactly what GPUs do today, and it is also why NVIDIA and ATI are trying to make their GPUs available to programmers for general purpose use. See CUDA ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html ) and Stream ( http://www.amd.c
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by lrm242 17y ago
Its never too late to stand up and admit your mistakes.
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by lrm242 17y ago
An intern? The entire bit.ly team doesn't even amount to one single intern, because they clearly needed more than that to build this service at scale. Cmon, seriously? Besides, why would Twitter want bit.ly's thousands of corporate clients
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by lrm242 17y ago
Why not, you want the demo code to work, right?
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by lrm242 17y ago
Dave's writing usually rubs me the wrong way, but this piece makes a ton of sense. Facebook has shown that they can execute well as the market changes so I suspect they will try to buy something, but will not pay the valuations most VCs exp
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by lrm242 17y ago
The first commenter was me. The financial markets are horizontal in the goals they serve. Drawing connections to specific utility can be done, but doesn't have to be done. For example: Efficient markets -> lower transaction costs ->
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by lrm242 17y ago
Please define flipping a security when you're holding a futures contract for the near month. You need to step back and understand the totality of the complex financial markets before you presume to understand peoples motivations by dictatin
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by lrm242 17y ago
Please define "things that have real value".
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by lrm242 17y ago
Because while they shaved 600ms of your execution time they also lowered your spread by 50 basis points, making it cheaper for you to unload your bond holdings on the market.
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by lrm242 17y ago
You're wrong about liquidity. By providing liquidity to a market you are providing immediacy to someone else. Market participants seeking immediacy place a specific value on it and are willing to pay someone for the privilege. As a market p
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by lrm242 17y ago
Greedy, sure ok. But 'evil'... seriously?
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by lrm242 17y ago
The weather--maybe. The local laws--absolutely.
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by lrm242 17y ago
It's not that imatix is some random company saying AMQP is broken... they are part creator of said beast. I think they've simply come to the conclusion that there is a better way to do it.
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by lrm242 17y ago
There are a lot of subtleties with trading. To make money you need positive expectancy and you need 'inventory', or tradeable markets. They don't have to make large trades to make money. You have to consider transaction costs, rebates, avg

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