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I worked at UBS on the G10 FX options desks in Stamford and Singapore. Remember being very surprised by how my interview and training were incredibly stressful. It was very intenti…

Thank you so much for this context! When I started at Lehman in 2007 and for years through the i-banks & hedge-funds, 'Sec-db' was the North Star for so much me and my friends buil…

Almost single major oil company & refinery has a team of traders that directly participate (or use the investment banks / futures brokers) in the crude oil and refined product futu…

As others have mentioned, there isn't really much of a difference (apart from fees) when you're thinking about it as a vehicle for long-term holdings. Most of the time, 401k plans …

Not sure I understand why we can assume that its all trades are entirely "independent" here. Agree with you that HFT performance is not correlated with market direction. But given …

Apart from the volume characteristic this doesn't seem to hold. Vanguard creates ETFs on diversified baskets of stocks picked(rules based) by other people eg: S&P, Nasdaq etc. YC a…

So we raised on a convertible note with a cap and a discount. We're from the east coast and our accessible angel pool balked at SAFEs. An argument for a different thread :-). I'd d…

Agreed. We walked all our angels through a 3 scenario (low, goal, home-run) Series A pre-money valuation analysis using a calculator. Bit overwhelming for some but everyone appreci…

Seems like most of the comments hate on REST because it's been poorly implemented by an API developer. Why is the solution yet another API protocol (JSONpure) and not stricter enfo…

You guys seem to make setting up Deep Learning infrastructure easy for data scientists which is awesome! What about situations where the end user/business isn't sure exactly how to…