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 intentional as well, where my trainer knew the…
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 built. It's amazing to hear from the folk…
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 futures / options markets. This is both for…
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 will not let you hold ETFs - they only…
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 the volume of trades it would imply…
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 actually has to review each and every…
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 defer to Paul's point that choosing a…
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 appreciated the effort. The biggest benefits…
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 enforcement? (Idealistic i know...) The…
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 use Deep Learning (which algorithm,…
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 intentional as well, where my trainer knew the…
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 built. It's amazing to hear from the folk…
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 futures / options markets. This is both for…
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 will not let you hold ETFs - they only…
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 the volume of trades it would imply…
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 actually has to review each and every…
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 defer to Paul's point that choosing a…
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 appreciated the effort. The biggest benefits…
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 enforcement? (Idealistic i know...) The…
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 use Deep Learning (which algorithm,…