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Cobra Mk 3

Artw — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:51:39 -0800

This month marks the 25th aniversary of Elite, the groundbreaking 3D space trading game. The making of Elite. More on the making of Elite from The Backroom Boys. Emulate the original BBC Micro version. The Dark Wheel.

High Frequency Trading

manny_calavera — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:06:25 -0800

High Frequency Trading The Algorithmic Trading animals have been let loose. (via) A look at the various strategies used in High frequency trading and the hardware used. "it's ironic that the hardware that HFT platforms are using to battle it out over stocks, bonds, commodities, and other assets is essentially the same as the technology that PC gamers are using to play their own games with much lower stakes. "

"...And all for the want of a horseshoe nail."

orthogonality — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:21:22 -0800

Picture a three-guy trading floor. They would call a carrier,... [and] manually move trunks in and out of route by issuing SQL commands against the Veraz's Oracle database.... Let me write that out for you: One ass-hat residential customer with a 20yo telephone with four extra buttons did thirty million dollars in damages in less than one night. Anyways, that's how the company went bankrupt... and about 6000 or so people ... all got laid off.

Sad Guys on Trading Floors.

longdaysjourney — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:53:32 -0800

Sad Guys on Trading Floors. (via)

He didn't call the company, but he did write up a headline.

butterstick — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:01:45 -0800

"News-flow" analysis is used by some automated trading systems to buy and sell stock based on stories circulating in the media. United Airlines (UAUA) stock plummeted the other day. And it plummeted fast. Like, lost %75 of it's value in 20 minutes fast. The problem? The news-flow that triggered this sell off was based on a mis-labeled story from 2002. via /.

Major climate change economics study released

wilful — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:16:45 -0800

The draft Garnaut Climate Change Review was released last Friday. This is the most comprehensive look so far at the economic implications of climate change and emissions trading for a developed country (Australia). Essential (but weighty) reading for those interested in the economics of the issue, a useful localisation of Stern (2006). Ross Garnaut is a distinguished economist from the orthodox school. He argues cogently for Australia and the developed world to play their part in reducing emissions, and notes that 450 ppm CO2-e is difficult but achievable. Final Report with full econometric modelling due in September. Scope of an Australian ETS due by christmas. Responses have dominated the weekend media cycle and blogosphere: The Age, evident scepticism on NEWS.com, blogs summary c/- Larvatus Prodeo.

So, that Y chromosone, it's the bad trading chromosone, right?

Mutant — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:12:01 -0800

Although Larry Summers drew fire for rather inappropriate comments illustrating differences between Men and Women, we all know they exist. For example, Veale (2007) showed that twice as many men snore than women, while Meyers-Levy (1989) illustrated that females develop stronger linguistic skills much earlier than males, an advantage that was maintained throughout life. Joseph (2004) provided results [.pdf] showing men were much better at dart throwing than women, while Tversky & Kahneman (1973) determined that unlike males, prone to making assumptions, women processed all available information when making decisions. Author John Gray took these observations to their logical conclusion, observing that Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. So is it any wonder to learn that women are much better investors that men? Indeed, research by Barber & Odean (2001) published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics showed that single women overall earn 2.3% more from their equity market trades than men. After marriage, however, this excess alpha shrinks to 1.4%, no doubt due to the distractions of trying to understand spoken Martian. According to Simone de Beauvoir, "One is not born a woman but rather becomes one." Apparently though, this research seems to show that all women are born traders.

Estonian trader hack nets 7.8 million

Muirwylde — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:12:03 -0800

Oh, the tangled webs we weave when we practice to deceive... Two traders with Estonias most prestigious financial firm spider the Business Wire website and manage to read headlines of impending news stories effectively enabling them to time the market to the tune of 7.8 million in profit...

Theory fun

homunculus — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:19:57 -0800

Social theory trading cards, action figures and legos! [Via Boing Boing.]

The barter system lives!

leahzero — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:03:48 -0800

The barter system lives! Trodo.com is a recently unveiled bartering hub where you sign up, list three items you're willing to send away to new owners and start out with three credits for items of the same kind you listed, then accrue more credits every time someone requests one of your items.

sib — Wed, 01 May 2002 00:47:22 -0800

This new trading card game takes an ironic look a a bunch of "Bad Ideas" from the dot-com boom and bust. The object is to remain in business as long as possible by raising money from VC's and forcing your opponents to spend resources on developing bad ideas... You can't actually generate any revenue, of course :-)

samelborp — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:52:57 -0800

Did I say devaluation? Nothing important, just another presidential blunder that caused a bit of confussion among Japan traders. Here in Europe it's been all over the place in the news and I am surprised that that little detail has been absent of the main USA media. I'm sure I didn't do my (online) homework well, could you please help me?

Maybe is that the European media jumps at every oportunity to ridiculize Bush? Or is the american media protecting Bush image inside the USA?

Could things like this controversial Pentagon plan be the beguinning of a New Media War? We begin by hidding the little things and then we'll go for bigger and bigger blackouts, and then even lies?

iceberg273 — Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:37:49 -0800

I'll trade you two Picassos for three Monets. While Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) may not be worth millions of dollars at auction (yet), the idea is starting to catch on. Participants create 64 by 89 millimeter (hockey card size) works of art using any media they want. Instead of selling the cards, the artists (and others) then trade them at local ATC gatherings. An exhibition of over 5000 cards is currently taking place in my hometown of Medicine Hat, but if Medicine Hat is not your holiday destination of choice, you could always organize a trading session in your own neighborhood.

paulrockNJ — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:35:55 -0800

Recordnerd.com : Possibly a repeat - sorry if it is. This is a cool site for record nerds like me to get rid of some old stuff and search out some new stuff at the same time.

kliuless — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:04:48 -0800

corporate totalitarianism and the ftaa: Activists will gather in Quebec City, Canada on April 11, 2001 to protest the upcoming Summit of the Americas (SOA) meeting. The purpose of the SOA, which will be held April 18-22, is to hammer out the first full text of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed agreement that would turn the entire Western Hemisphere (except Cuba) into the largest international trading bloc in history.

palegirl — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 13:42:42 -0800

from this weeks nyt mag: a fantastic article by the always-excellent michael lewis: Jonathan Lebed: Stock Manipulator, S.E.C. Nemesis -- and 15

bkdelong — Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:06:14 -0800

California shuts down Nader-Gore vote trading site. This is absolutely ridiculous. "William Wood, chief counsel for the office of the secretary of state, said yesterday morning that trading for anything valuable is illegal. "