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by mruts 8y ago
Yes sorry: legal
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I think people over estimate that possibility. I (and many people I know) got addicted because the same guy who deals one drug, deals other drugs. In my case I was buying cocaine to party and have sex and it turned out my drug dealer had he
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by mruts 8y ago
In my personal case, using opiates, specifically, heroin, was the only thing that let me keep my job (well, until I quit my job to get off of that shit). Working 12 hour day, 6-7 days a week in a brutal and miserable work environment (finan
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by mruts 8y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I like servers that I can touch. Maybe if you're only a couple person company, it makes sense to use the cloud. But just paying for some space at a data-center and having your own servers seems ideal for any c
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by mruts 8y ago
Are you sure you worked at an HFT firm? Front running has always been illegal as it is basically insider trading. Being fast is not an easy way to make money. It's an incredibly hard and difficult way to make money. I don't know w
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by mruts 8y ago
Well then you'll be happy to hear that the era of exotic derivatives is mostly over. People nowadays just want to trade standard products (vanilla options, stocks, futures, etc) very quickly. And the reason startups like VC vs public m
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by mruts 8y ago
All the remaining HFT firms (there's not that many left) have moved into FPGAs and ASICs as well. HFT is interesting because it's not really that finance related at all. The kind of people that work at HFT firms (at least the ones
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There were some dark pools that were offering sub-cent pricing. But the SEC fined them and made them stop.
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The faster a market maker can trade, the smaller spread they can offer. This is clearly a good thing.
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by mruts 8y ago
Flash boys is a pretty bad book that contains downright false information. How do you think that you can get free equity trades on RobinHood? HFT massively helps small investors, while (arguably) hurting bigger institutional players. HFT is
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Nvidia is in a pretty shitty situation at the moment. Stocks down almost 50% after the crypto-bubble popped (or deflated I guess is the better word).
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I am palestinian and have family in the West bank and Gaza. And what OPs saying isn't true at all. They are an occupied and oppressed people, treated like dirt and without representation. Gaza is literally a concentration camp that is
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by mruts 8y ago
I'm palestinian and have family in the West bank and Gaza. What you're saying isn't true at all. Funnily enough, I also have family in Jordan. Let me tell you, their lives are much better than those under Israeli occupation.
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by mruts 8y ago
I'm not talking about the bid-ask spread. A bid is just someone willing to buy something for a specific price. An ask is someone willing to sell something at a specific price. The bid-ask spread is the difference between the lowest ask
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by mruts 8y ago
You realize you could say the same thing about almost every other drug as well? Look up the side-effects of SSRIs, SNRIs, caffeine, really anything at all.
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What's wrong with nicotine? Besides being addictive, all of its effects are positive: increased cognition and memory, preventive against dementia and parkinson's, mild mood stabilization.
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Fortunately we have science in place of what you "suspect." And E-cigs have very little cancer potential (possibly none at all) compared to tobacco.
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There's MAOIs in tobacco that are not present in gum or e-cigs. MAOIs change the psychoactive effects of nicotine. There is also some evidence that MAOIs significantly increase the addiction potential of nicotine. A little off topic, b
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by mruts 8y ago
A new tactic? People have been smoking cigarettes in movies forever, for a couple reasons. 1) Stylistically, it looks cool and makes great shots. The light going through the smoke, the burning sound of the inhale. 2) It tells us something a
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There's evidence that nicotine is more addictive in the presence of MAOIs, which are absent in e-cigs.
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Wow now that's a convincing argument.
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Nicotine has many beneficial properties: increasing cognition and IQ, as a mood stabilizer, as a stimulant, while also helping prevent dementia and Parkinson's disease.
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by mruts 8y ago
How to Lie with Statistics is such a great book. It's amazing how relevant it is seeing it's over 60 years old. The same lies that were being told then are being told today with statistics.
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by mruts 8y ago
Is there an established link between nicotine and (lung) cancer? I wasn't aware of one. Of course there is an established link between tobacco use and lung cancer, but that's an entirely different thing. Of the studies that I&#x27
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I don’t think that is true. bid and asks aren’t a true/total reflection of the msrket. There’s not going to be many people with a bid of $5 for Apple, even though any rational being would buy Apple for $5. Human traders can access this
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Also Jane Street and Sasquehanna in the EFT space. Both of those firms are making great money nowadays.
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And CVS is clearly the cutting edge of source control.
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It's because the hotels are rent seeking and seek to offload as much risk as they can into the legal system. Edit: This is also why faking loan documents and wire fraud is a crime.
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No, you’re totally right. I’ve made a fortune and lost it (like 200k) and there was no skill on my part in either direction. I work in finance for a hedge fund as a quant, and really hope I’m adding some alpha. Though, sometimes I think all
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by mruts 8y ago
While charting is stupid (that is, looking at one security time-series for patterns), I don’t believe stuff like RSI, MACD, or Bollinger bands are worthless. Many successful quant models have been built using certain technical indicators

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