Recent content by sjain

Hi, ASX rejects limit orders that are more aggressive than their 4 tick limit. e.g., Bid at 100, tick size is .1, it will reject Buy Orders placed at 100+.1*4 and above. Is anyone aware of such limits and whether there are other exchanges that enforce such limits? Not sure if this is the best...

I think employers, not employees should read this :D

Hi Dominic, I was wondering if you still headhunting for quant professionals. Can you please share your contact information with me so we can chat on phone or email? Cheers.

Is there a way to download all attachments to a thread in a single download? Would be a useful feature to have if a thread has many attachments.

should change title to "christmas party riddle" ;)

Can you be more specific? Give an example that illustrates sexism in engineering since you are a male and the post was liked by males.. In what was have you observed (since you have not experienced) sexism in your field ?

One point I would like to make is sexism occurs only in certain professions. Fields such as science, engineering and more quantitative fields, I believe are based entirely on meritocracy and there is no discrimination at all. However, in jobs such as floor trading, sales, military which are...

Well that's just because of the levels of illiteracy. But if you take the literate population from both countries, I can bet Indians are much better. As someone rightly pointed out, when you have a country the size of a continent, things tend to be inward...

No there is no free alternative to getting data from Bloomberg. For learning, there are a variety of tutorials online. e.g. http://www.bu.edu/library/management/tutorials/bloombergtutorial.html

Hilarious bit. The funniest part was "Uninhabited"..

Isn't English already Americas official language? Can someone confirm this for my own knowledge please..

Well innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time. IMHO, its like mathematics...easier to look back and say that's so easy. Apple came up with the first true trend setting GUI computer, what stuff they imitated noone cares.. Apple came up with the first trend setting GUI touchscreen...

Yes definitely there was. Those charitable contributions planned by Apple were not very meaningful in the business sense. And his intentions were only to delay those contributions and increase their size and distribution later on.

Steve Jobs was more than a marketing person, he was a visionary. Many people can write code, few people can write excellent code, but only once in a while there is a person who has the vision to change the future. I doubt if Apple will sustain its growth without his vision once the Iphone/Ipad...

It shouldn't matter to you. The prop trading arm will probably be spun off from the bank as a hedge fund, provided it is doing well.