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[marcoose]

Hi everyone - just wanted to say a bog HELLO on my first say of trading.

 

[wackypete2]

Hello!

Welcome!

If you have questions, ask...but if you get a response somewhat like this:

, then you might want to rephrase your question!


Good Luck!!

Peter

 

[robster970]

Make sure Pete's around so he can ask his parrot for the answer. Pete's parrot has helped many of us out in our journies to profitability/ruin.

 

[wackypete2]

ruin? Yes, it was definitely the parrot.

Peter

 

[wackypete2]

The parrot has been watching me trade and lately he's been saying "Loser, Loser"
I'm not sure if he means me or the trade.

Peter

 

[robster970]

One of each perhaps?

Anyway, I'm still convinced most posters think you just like unusual print t-shirts rather than having a clairvoyant talking parrot which is really what we all know you do have.

 

[DashRiprock]

Pete: "Gee, I like the look of shorting the long bond here, but I want to hide my order from the market. I think I'll break it up into an iceberg order - what do you think?

Polly: "Yeah, do it"

Pete: "How shall I spit it up?"

Polly: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight"

 

[marcoose]

Love the randomability! Thanks - I suppose!

 

[DashRiprock]

randomability would be setting up your execution platform to treat the order as teh integral of a gaussian distribution, and then set the mean, standard deviation and any measure of skew / kurtosis, and then firing a random number into that in order to find out the size of each trade you sent to the exchange.

It sounds like lulz but even tt can do that now.