I'm a little skeptical of your motives (as are others here) seeing as you don't seem willing to reveal your trading style in detail. However I...
Are you for real? Yes the prosecution has a job ahead of it and I guess to take that point of view, how dare we say bad things about OJ!...
Skilling perpetrated gargantuan fraud at the expense of everyone including "little people" who really didn't have it to lose.
He was a protege of Soros. He went on to found and manage his own global macro hedge fund and had terrific performance for a few years. He blew up...
Fair point Dark Horse, I've noticed that he dismisses the importance of share volume for example (I am speaking about stocks, not anything else...
Sort of like skydiving without going through the drill on the ground first. An option sure, but I wouldn't recommend it. Congratulations on your...
And in fact, I recall that Taleb claims in "Fooled By Randomness" that Neiderhoffer said, no actually blurted out : "Any testable statement...
Dark Horse, you make a really interesting point and no doubt valid. Neiderhoffer and many others, however, claim that financial history is...
I recall that he persuaded Soros to let him bet big on tech stocks after sitting out the party for several years. His timing? The end of the year...
He was a mutual fund trader whose style is now defunct. He was quoted in a piece recently (New York Time or Businessweek, can't remember which)...
Excellent post. I trade stocks, not the futures and I'm wondering if your statistics apply to the spy (S&P 500 ETF) or the qqq also....
I've tried to back-test this with the spy, qqq, and other etfs as well as with individual stocks and indexes I spent months trying to develop a...
There are many threads related to this - do a search (see upper right corner of elite trader page for search function) Personally, I get a...
I mean a Prime Broker type of environment (excluding prop shops)? The minimum dollars mentioned here are prohibitive for me. Also I'm fearful...
Is this effective immediately? I've heard some firms have pulled bullet software already (I think in anticipation rather than compliance)
Since I'm likely to be moving there soon I would have made the trip for the meeting (moving from NYC). Will catch it next time
Of course it's not. No argument there. While my experience has been different, yours is more cautionary and definitely worth thinking about....
Lets make a distinction. As someone who has a top 10 MBA and a CFA designation, there is no question but that they do get you the interview in any...
Bright's Dallas office is closed down. In fact I may be spending some time down there too and need a prop shop in Dallas. Anybody?
I see some excellent points made here. However I would disagree with the get an MBA and/or CFA designation. I have both and they helped me...
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