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by vostok 8y ago
> Sure, but is such a school giving their child any actual advantage? I think so. It puts them in touch with other rich children from all around the world.
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by vostok 8y ago
> No. The rich and everyone else send their kids to the same public schools. They don't send their kids to boarding schools in the UK/US/Switzerland?
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by vostok 8y ago
At least in my products negotiation really does happen over compliance approved channels.
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by vostok 8y ago
My firm prohibits whatsapp for business use and I know it's not the only one.
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by vostok 8y ago
ICE Chat and Cloud 9 come to mind. In general it's going to vary from product to product.
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by vostok 8y ago
I started my career as a trader at a bank and then moved on to quant/trading/PM roles at extremely cost sensitive firms. Not a single one of them used IBKR. > There are no hedge fund managers I respect who don’t run their perso
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by vostok 8y ago
> Of all the retail investing platforms, I think they are the biggest and the top pick for rather serious investors. I would agree with this, but I'm not sure that this is a meaningful universe for comparison. It's also quite d
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by vostok 8y ago
The best tier is about 30bps over fed funds or libor, doesn't matter in the current environment. I've seen better from major banks. This is on top of the other downsides that I mentioned. It would be fine if the financing terms we
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by vostok 8y ago
It's expensive in literally every way from commissions to margin rates. I meant swaps specifically. I know that they offer margin trading.
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by vostok 8y ago
Margin seems pretty expensive too and AFAIK they auto liquidate you rather than letting you meet the call. That's not great in both dimensions.
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by vostok 8y ago
Interactive brokers seems quite expensive, doesn't offer trading on swap, and has quite a few other downsides. I doubt that it's used by many serious institutional customers.
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by vostok 8y ago
It's a very indirect relationship to how much the exchange makes.
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by vostok 8y ago
I should have linked to this in my original post, but here is a photograph of Bashar al-Assad. I'm not familiar with Canadian or even US law, but I have a hard time imagining him as a visible minority in the colloquial sense. https:&#
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by vostok 8y ago
I agree with your comment about much of the 20th century, which is why I prefaced my comment the way that I did. I'm in one of those categories and I've experienced extremely minimal racism in the US. I think the UK has more racis
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by vostok 8y ago
> There weren't however "white" with a modern European and American conception of "whiteness" which restricts it to anglosaxon populations. I don't know what era is referred to as modern, but southern Europe
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by vostok 8y ago
You would need to be careful about comparing areas that are otherwise similar or do something more sophisticated than merely comparing rates of psychiatric hospitalization between two areas. Average incomes and other factors are probably im
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by vostok 8y ago
In the US typical average age at matriculation is around 27-28 at top business schools and they have formal/informal work experience requirements. People who get in straight out of college are typically doing 2+2 or similar programs al
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by vostok 8y ago
I don't have any statistics, but I had several friends in high school who got into college and ended up dropping out. I don't think any of them regret it. Only one of them dropped out to start his own company. None of them went to
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by vostok 9y ago
As an adult, I think it's because electronics are more attractive. As a kid, I gladly slogged through the Silmarillion. Given my choice of verb, I'm not sure that I could do it today. Reading the comments on HN gives me a much qui
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by vostok 9y ago
Is that an arbitrage in the same sense that selling puts is an arbitrage?
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by vostok 9y ago
Isn't the integral notation just saying that two sets (or equivalence classes or similar) are equal?
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by vostok 9y ago
> Try a simpler explanation: Hillary was a shit candidate who many distrust, and she worked very hard to get that reputation. It seems to me that many people who are not Clinton worked very hard at manufacturing this reputation.
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by vostok 9y ago
Something to consider is that your view might not be as widespread as you think. It's certainly not a common view among people that I know. My view is probably the other extreme from your view in that I don't have a Facebook accou
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by vostok 9y ago
I think the math of going from $300k to $150k went by too quickly for me. Can you go over it in a little more detail?
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by vostok 9y ago
For what it's worth, I've taken out $10k in cash and deposited it about a month later. I assume that the bank had to do some paper work on the bank end, but I wasn't exposed to it at all.
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by vostok 9y ago
If I was organizing a speech and had a budget of a few hundred thousand then Hillary Clinton would be near the top of my list.
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by vostok 9y ago
> At M.I.T., he joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which he has said helped him learn how to build a corporate culture. > When people talk about things you can't say in tech companies, being in a greek organization is one of
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by vostok 9y ago
I agree that there are issues with unethical financial advisors and retail customers. OP linked to an article about the wholesale "professional" market where the same rules don't and shouldn't apply. I'm saying that
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by vostok 9y ago
The shoe analogy is great. It isn't perfect because in finance everyone's goal is to make money so it's a little more complicated, but there are similarities. You might have a situation where ex-ante both parties are making t
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by vostok 9y ago
I don't really see the issue unless there were incentives set up to encourage this and it wasn't properly disclosed. Usually when you trade with a bank desk you know that they're betting against you because they're the o

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