Recent Content by rufus_4000

  1. Wall Street financial firms plan new exchange to challenge NYSE, Nasdaq

    This has happened already, BATS was started by a HFT and subsequently the Wall street firms bought equities in it. I had a cup of coffee with...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jan 10, 2019 in forum: Wall St. News

  2. Cheap way to move residency to Hong kong or Singapore

    Just noticed this thread. To the original poster, one possibility is to associate you self with one of the many FinTech firms in either HK and SG,...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Taxes and Accounting

  3. How to Invest in Hedge Funds and Pay No Taxes

    Wrapping hedge funds (or some ppl call it alternative investments) in a variable annuity is nothing new, there were some bankers walking around...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jun 1, 2018 in forum: Wall St. News

  4. IEX exchange being sued

    The problem with Brad (Katsuyama) is that he has antagonized I would say a lot of Wall Street firms. I have met some of the IEX guys, and had a...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Mar 4, 2018 in forum: Wall St. News

  5. Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-

    In my opinion, having dealt with regulators and enforcement agencies before, is that they are focused on "damaging to the general public", far...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jan 26, 2018 in forum: Wall St. News

  6. Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-

    The actual indictment here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1026696/download Couple of observations. The indictment is basesd on...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jan 23, 2018 in forum: Wall St. News

  7. Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-

    This is surprising. Rob Bogucki is very well known in FX Options trading, he was at Lehman for a long time then Barclays. To arrest him directly...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jan 23, 2018 in forum: Wall St. News

  8. Wall Street trading giant Virtu cut staff by half and laid in to a $1.4 billion acquisition — now it

    Impressive, but two different perspectives. Look at it this way, Virtu has always been a high-frequency proprietary trading operation (one that...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Nov 12, 2017 in forum: Wall St. News

  9. Jon Corzine to pay $5M to settle MF Global case

    No just that, the key problem with MF was the co-mingling of client segregated funds and firm capital. That's not just improper, it is illegal...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jan 10, 2017 in forum: Wall St. News

  10. U.S. accuses Chinese citizens of hacking law firms, insider trading

    Likely by SEC market surveillance first, all broker / dealers regularly receive SEC surveillance requests to retrieve trading records for...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Dec 28, 2016 in forum: Wall St. News

  11. ?Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning?

    Wow, this is bringing back memories. I started my academic career as an AI researcher (ok, I was just a kid grad student back then) in late 80s...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Oct 31, 2016 in forum: App Development

  12. HFT in 2016 and beyond

    Largely echo the sentiment here. The leading HFT firms today are far larger than more profitable than I could have even imagined those years ago....
    Post by: rufus_4000, Aug 4, 2016 in forum: Automated Trading

  13. FIX/FAST being retired?

    Here is the main problem with FIX/FAST, it doesn't lend itself well to either a "fast" hardware implementation and parallelization as most of the...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Dec 20, 2012 in forum: App Development

  14. Getco cuts staff with trading volumes thin [Financial Times]

    A few things are going on at Getco, not just trading volume. Getco is certainly not as profitable as before, but I think that's pretty much most...
    Post by: rufus_4000, Jun 24, 2012 in forum: Automated Trading

  15. Lightweight threads

    Ok, I will bite. Those who know me knows that I am not a .NET person by any means. But for a large number of concurrent lightweight threads...
    Post by: rufus_4000, May 6, 2012 in forum: App Development