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I envy you with your math degree. Even if you can't get a wonderful job right away, you should be able to paint some kind of bright future.

Thanks for the answers. Is it possible for someone to give a little bit more detailed answer? For example, x % of people who start off are making > £ x after 2 years and x % of these people are making between £ x and £ x, something like that? Sorry if my question is too much focussed on actual...

Suppose you are contemplating where to start your career and you have some options and time. How big is the chance that starting off as a backed trader at an arcade (euribor etc.) will get you a stable reasonable income (or less stable, but extraordinary income)? Thanks in advance

if you are willing to teach yourself before you start, then interactive brokers is the best solution for almost anyone. i am trading professionally for a firm now, but if i were at home i would choose interactive brokers had very good experiences with it.

short term behaviour is like this: you have two kinds of participants, the long term traders and the short term traders. the short term people are usually waiting until the long term people act and provide an "opportunity" all the short term traders scramble to get the fill, leaving many of the...

They make a very good, down-to-earth impression from the website.

does anyone know a free chatforum for lse daytraders? thanks

London City has a latency of 300ms? Because that's what you are facing when setting up in CapeTown. Have you tested it? What were the results?

Positive or negative edge = a set of rules or behavior that set your trading results apart from random. How to find one? Think of what could make you eligible for making above random results.

Dear fellow traders, Afaik, the standard arb used to be buy bid, sell offer at the lower volatile instrument and hedge with smaller size on the correlated, but more volatile instrument, in effect taking half the bid ask spread. Is this still being done? Schatz - bobl etc. i wonder what's the...

How can smaller clients use platforms like Currenex?

Doesn't it get more sophisticated than that later on. Aren't there any directional traders over there making money? Or do you need to work at a global macro hedgefund for that :confused:

INTJ, I guess I have to live with it :rolleyes: