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mlrtime
12y ago
Imaging your entire IT department being wiped out instantly overnight, managers included. How quickly would it take you to restore access to your infrastructure?
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mlrtime
12y ago
Not really, Thesys is a technology provider to many firms. Providers include financial services firms, trading companies and regulation authorities. If the SEC purchased the technology (Or spend more money to build it themselves) they woul
2043.
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mlrtime
12y ago
You should replace 'Wall Street' with bulge bracket firm. There are a lot of financial tech companies where engineers make much more than traders, vps or sales and are not treated as second class citizens.
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mlrtime
12y ago
We call it picking up pennies off a train track.
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mlrtime
12y ago
The exact definition of proprietary trading is trading with the firm's own money. Public/private is an entirely different dimension. There are no sales reps with prop trading, it isn't an agency. http://en.wikipe
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mlrtime
12y ago
There are 1000's of trades that occur in that second and not only HFT. Someone will benefit if they just happen to cross the spread in that .1s. If you are unloading 10,0000 shares the speed arbitrage could save you real money.
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mlrtime
12y ago
You will miss those silly little moments with your daughter, don't give them up.
2048.
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mlrtime
12y ago
Or you can just filter them to create your own front page. Reading reddit becomes a much different experience once you start to customize it.
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mlrtime
12y ago
If there is a standard distribution of gay men and women in the population, wouldn't that be true of any product? Sure, it could be higher in tech fields however there is a high probability of a gay man or woman building most the prod
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mlrtime
12y ago
I think an important piece missing is the active vs passive decision making. When you purchase a ticket your are actively triggering the thought process. In your scenario there would be a passive trigger that would dull the entertainment a
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mlrtime
12y ago
It is certainly not 50%, each stock will have an implied volatility that will statistically determine the likelihood of a move.
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mlrtime
12y ago
"I don't know anything about trading" Why do you feel so strongly about banning a practice that you admit know nothing about? Is this just a gut feeling?
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mlrtime
12y ago
I know nothing about beekeeping but having read the article it seems that weight would be an important measure.