The country turned orange this week with our new king. Not much too add, but reading the Economist today on the Dutch Fleet in electronic trading. Briefly mentioned the history of the Dutch exchange and the three most prominent Dutch trading firms. Not the latest edition, but from April 20. Here’s the link. For market [...]
A small victory for The Order Machine / TOM. Conform all expectations, NYSE Euronext is forced to allow TOM as a member on their derivative exchange. Even Euronext saw the rain coming, and agreed to accept TOM as a member of the exchange. Didn’t even bother to wait for the court. The expensive legal procedures [...]
Every once and a while mails arrive asking for advice for getting a job in the trading industry. Well, I’ve found the perfect job for getting a foot between the door at one of the major trading firms from Amsterdam, IMC. Hat tip to the comments, would have missed this golden opportunity. If it wasn’t [...]
Short post, can’t do it much better than the Sydney Morning Herald today. Some mails surfaced from the period the Tibra founders were still working for Optiver. Finally, the password has been broken. ”Ok Cats, We are 6 weeks out and under the pump. Here is the timeline we are working off.“ Source Optiver profit 256 [...]