You've got to be shitting me too if you think Volente is the kind of simple retail trader you see on spreadbetters. I look at the same data you do...
The more rebuttals and/or abuse Volente gets the more I think he might be on to something...
Specifically, what is weird about it to you? Just for my edufication like.
It's odd the amount of "noisy trading" we've seen recently. That first Friday sell-off in tech, the gold "fat-finger" now this highly visible bet...
CTAs do well on really big moves. Think Crude Oil 2014. That kind of volatility. Not a bit of whippy action in the spooz.
Where did Cutten/Ghost of Cutten go?
what quarter-end giveth, quarter-end taketh away.
Slight aside, I couldn't help but look back at some of your old posts and was interested to see this from Sep 2001: "My annual returns are around...
A lot of OTC exotics are used in structured products for retail buyers, at least in Europe. If you are a high net worth person, ie have an account...
Well tbh, I think it's just trying to figure all this out. It's not so easy if you don't already know. Even if you think you've got it, it takes...
IB currently showing no quotes for me for Mar'18 GBU FOPs on GLOBEX. I see quotes out to Dec'17 GBU. Futures Mar19'18 @GLOBEX showing no trades...
Personally I wouldn't bother with "the numbers". The forward/future price that is relevant can be backed out of the option prices via put-call...
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It's possible to be led astray by data here I think. I'd say just consider this little table and when might your investment/payoff be most...
If it was me I would google it, and for each one found, check if the library is on PyPi and when it was last updated/see how many people are...
Sure you didn't enter "static typing" by mistake? Python is a strongly dynamically typed language, ie there's no funny implicit casting a la...
Take the things you want and put " python" after it in google. Sorry if that's too technical an answer.
I'd like to know what happened to 40yotrader. His system-related posts were very informative and detailed. I did wonder if I'd come across him a...
As was pointed out elsewhere, the futures expiring in Apr have underlying of the "spot" VIX which is actually calculated on option prices with...
So, anything you can do without really thinking about it is hard...anything involve concious thought is easier.
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