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http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?ID=topliquidity GS isn't even top-5 on NASDAQ. Professional trading was never cheap. The barrier to entry for becoming a high-frequency trad…

Giant broker = small privately held company? The biggest players in this game are not massive NYC investment banks.

Liquidity providers get paid to trade on most exchanges (maker-taker model). ETA: That's not to say this is a good book. It's not. I'd recommend Vidyamurthy's Pairs Trading and Har…

I would gladly take such a position so long as the system seemed fair (e.g., seeing several long-term non-owner/management employees working there). The terms are spelled out clear…

It also has negative effects for experienced workers: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a3Es... Instead of being fired or laid off, employees are put into "Milton…

Check out OKWS ( http://www.okws.org/doku.php?id=okws ) if you're interested in developing webapps on C++.

That's called dual trading and there are already regulations in place that prohibit the scenario you described. A broker must execute his clients' orders before his own. In any cas…

Front-running is knowing an order is going to be inserted into an exchange's book, and sending your order before it; an example would be if a broker saw a client making a big trade…

If the person believed a natural counterparty would come along within milliseconds, why would he or she enter a market order rather than a passive limit order? There are many high-…

Technology has been disrupting Wall Street for years. Look at the NYSE / Archipelago reverse merger where a young, tech-savvy upstart ECN essentially took over the iconic New York …

The original poster probably doesn't meet the requirements for investing in hedge funds http://www.fool.com/investing/mutual-funds/2006/02/28/are-yo... ; and they don't take $24k i…

Assigning the value 0 or NULL to a pointer does not necessarily set it to address 0.

It's not that amazing. Amtrak is a quasai-governmental entity; airlines face a lot of competition. Planes fly longer distances and have no alternate way to get online. People on a …

Is that round-trip? I looked on Kayak and a round-trip flight tomorrow is at least $300. I don't think the busses and trains get so much more expensive at the last minute, but I co…

Not all automated trading or quantitative finance is high-frequency. A bank trading exotic derivatives OTC could use C# to generate quotes without a problem. There are at least a c…

Depends on the branch. In quantitative finance: C++, R, F#, Q, OCaml, MATLAB, Python (NumPy and SciPy)

That's actually really useful info. If someone visits your site enough to be in their top sites, it's probably a sign that they like it a lot.

It's legal to disclose one's religion, marital status, and sexual orientation on a resume as well, but I think it would scare a hiring manager off. Saying you're eligible to work s…

My friends have all had similar experiences, though most of them were interviewing straight out of undergrad, so it may have been a little different. Have seriously in-depth knowle…

I don't really think so. You're really trying to measure the scale of your work. Better metrics would be what specifications you implemented, features you added, scalability (# of …

Agreed. Even assuming people do the right thing all the time and never get behind the wheel after drinking, when emotionally heated, without enough sleep, or while distracted by ph…

Modern cars make so much power that you really don't need to shift unless you're accelerating from a stop, in traffic, or on curvy/hilly backroads. I can comfortably drive in 6th g…

I've had a brand new high-end German car for almost a year and some of my closest friends don't even know I own it (I live in a large city where driving isn't that common). I like …

Top-tier high frequency proprietary trading firm. Always looking for expert level C and C++, strong knowledge of network programming, real-time systems, distributed systems, multit…

I would assume it means to short sell the security. No clever modeling is going to generate 3000% quarterly returns in mostly efficient markets without taking significant risk. I d…