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by ryporter 13y ago
Our trading system is purely in C++. This particular subsystem was a replacement for a previous version, which was a kill switch and had led to opportunity costs. We spent a lot of time designing, implementing, and testing it, but haven&#x
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by ryporter 13y ago
I work for a small automated trading firm (in foreign exchange), and marking positions to market is one of the difficulties in designing an effective kill switch, because these marks can easily make the difference between a large gain and a
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything, designing and implementing our own trading st
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strat
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strat
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by ryporter 13y ago
That's a good point, and I like your proposal, but we post on other job boards and don't currently lose much time sifting through obviously bad candidates. So, even without any such mechanism, I think that the benefits of improved interact
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by ryporter 13y ago
It has yielded many of our best candidates, but not yet any hires. We judge job boards mainly on the quality of candidates that it connects us with, since what happens from that point on is more a function of us and the individual candidat
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the currency markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies an
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by ryporter 13y ago
While we may be able to figure out a way to accommodate short periods of remote work, we want the entire team in the same place most of the time.
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by ryporter 13y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. Join us in writing software that trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market. We are a very small team, all engineers, who design and implement our own trading strateg
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by ryporter 13y ago
That may be more of a case of the stack reflecting you than defining you. The distinction I'm drawing is whether you allow external perceptions to influence your decision.
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Ultimately, the most important thing to keep in mind is that your “stack” shouldn’t define you. While I agree with this advice in general, there are cases in which it is advantageous to allow your stack to define you. For example, Jane S
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by ryporter 13y ago
This event is even less deserving of being called a "crash" than the so-called "Flash Crash". The markets did not crash; they blipped. Average investors should not have been affected at all. (Some probably were affected due to stop-loss o
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by ryporter 14y ago
We're mainly interested in full-time engineers to build out our core team. While we wouldn't rule out an internship, the bar would be far higher.
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by ryporter 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infras
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by ryporter 14y ago
In defense of Wes, the book does do a good job of introducing you to IPython and NumPy. I had mainly used Python as a generic scripting language prior to reading much of this book, mainly writing vanilla scripts in emacs. Afterwards (and
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by ryporter 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructure, down to the networking code
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by ryporter 14y ago
AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. Join us in writing software that trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market. We are a very small team, all engineers, who design and implement our own trading strateg
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by ryporter 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infras
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by ryporter 14y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I've largely switched to Python as my scripting language (except for one-liners), but I'll still defend Perl against those who dismiss it out of hand. After using it an Amazon, I've seen firsthand how productive one
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by ryporter 14y ago
Your complaint seems to have two main components: (1) that the startups exist at all, and (2) that they were posted to HN. While you may be right about the quality of the ideas, I definitely want people to continue to post any and all star
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The SEC could certainly do (much) more, but I'm merely claiming that they seem to be improving. Most of the articles I've read about Mary Schapiro's recent retirement conclude that she left the SEC in a better state than she found it. For
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It would certainly be different if it were restricted to a specific group, but part of the point was that it was not. Given that this wasn't exactly a backroom deal, I have trouble seeing what an investigation could uncover beyond the firs
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While I have a lot of respect for the SEC's increased crackdown on financial wrongdoing such as insider trading, this really seems like a stretch. Considering how quickly "internal" company memos are publicly disseminated, I don't see how
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by ryporter 14y ago
You could consider a job in Finance researching new trading strategies. While this is certainly very far from pure research, a job in this area can satisfy most of the bullet points listed in the article. For example, at my current job, I
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It's hard to take a criticism of HFT seriously when the author very confidently asserts a rather extreme definition of it, and thus appears to be talking about a very different subject matter than what I (and, I believe, many others) would
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Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infra
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by ryporter 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the currency markets. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructur
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by ryporter 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the currency markets. We are all engineers, and we design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructure, down to the networking code that ti

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