i'm currently reading/listening (thank you kindle/audible for this synched up tech!!) to The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. I had been *searching* for a good truthful book on the evils of the east india company for a LONG time. This one hits the nail on the head and is very accessible.
AVOID at all costs if you prefer the sugar coated version of history that you've learned about the EIC, this lays bare the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the bl00dy truth!!!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anarchy-Rise-F ... 7010250454
Anyone read any good books?
Just looked him up, that's one hell of an edge! Thanks for the suggestion. Will definitely give it a read.
I thought Id post this whilst i remember
Ive been following what happened to Navinder Sarao who was considered (rightly or wrongly) to have caused the flash crash of 2010. It recen;t went to court in the US and he escaped a lengthy jail sentence.
he was a self taught trader who amassed around £90m and earned upto £90K a day from his mum and dads back bedroom!
He had a program written for him that essentially submitted many spoof bets (mhmm that sound familiar
Well there is a book due out in written and audiobook next month
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Def one for the list and looking forward to reading it (oh and there is a film too soon, although with The big Short being the exception; these tend not to lend themselves too well to the big screen imo)
Summary
At 14.32 p.m. on May 6, 2010, stock markets around the world simultaneously crashed without warning, wiping out trillions of dollars and creating havoc. The incident, dubbed 'The Flash Crash', exposed the shaky foundations propping up today's hyper-fast, computer-dominated financial system.
Government hearings, academic papers and a sweeping US investigation followed but, for years, its cause remained a mystery. Then, on April 21, 2015, two dozen police officers and FBI agents descended on a shabby suburban street in Hounslow to arrest an unlikely figure: Navinder Singh Sarao, a slight, doe-eyed 36-year old second-generation British Indian who - despite never having set foot in an investment bank - had earned more than $60 million trading futures in the same bedroom he'd slept in since he was a boy.
Sarao was a genuine savant, a one-in-a-million talent for whom making money in the markets was just another computer game to perfect. But he also had a steely, stubborn side. In 2009, frustrated by what he and many others saw as the unfair advantage enjoyed by multibillion-dollar high-frequency trading firms, Sarao had built a computer system that ‘spoofed’ his rivals into trading how he wanted.
He called it ‘NavTrader’, and the US government says it contributed to the biggest crash in the history of financial markets. The Flash Crash tells the unlikely story of how a streetwise, working-class outsider from West London who lived with his parents and never had a job came to outsmart some of the richest and most sophisticated investors in the world, raking in millions of pounds until the fateful day his doomsday machine worked too well, and he stood accused of bringing the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
©2019 Liam Vaughan (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Ive been following what happened to Navinder Sarao who was considered (rightly or wrongly) to have caused the flash crash of 2010. It recen;t went to court in the US and he escaped a lengthy jail sentence.
he was a self taught trader who amassed around £90m and earned upto £90K a day from his mum and dads back bedroom!
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He had a program written for him that essentially submitted many spoof bets (mhmm that sound familiar
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Well there is a book due out in written and audiobook next month
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Def one for the list and looking forward to reading it (oh and there is a film too soon, although with The big Short being the exception; these tend not to lend themselves too well to the big screen imo)
Summary
At 14.32 p.m. on May 6, 2010, stock markets around the world simultaneously crashed without warning, wiping out trillions of dollars and creating havoc. The incident, dubbed 'The Flash Crash', exposed the shaky foundations propping up today's hyper-fast, computer-dominated financial system.
Government hearings, academic papers and a sweeping US investigation followed but, for years, its cause remained a mystery. Then, on April 21, 2015, two dozen police officers and FBI agents descended on a shabby suburban street in Hounslow to arrest an unlikely figure: Navinder Singh Sarao, a slight, doe-eyed 36-year old second-generation British Indian who - despite never having set foot in an investment bank - had earned more than $60 million trading futures in the same bedroom he'd slept in since he was a boy.
Sarao was a genuine savant, a one-in-a-million talent for whom making money in the markets was just another computer game to perfect. But he also had a steely, stubborn side. In 2009, frustrated by what he and many others saw as the unfair advantage enjoyed by multibillion-dollar high-frequency trading firms, Sarao had built a computer system that ‘spoofed’ his rivals into trading how he wanted.
He called it ‘NavTrader’, and the US government says it contributed to the biggest crash in the history of financial markets. The Flash Crash tells the unlikely story of how a streetwise, working-class outsider from West London who lived with his parents and never had a job came to outsmart some of the richest and most sophisticated investors in the world, raking in millions of pounds until the fateful day his doomsday machine worked too well, and he stood accused of bringing the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
©2019 Liam Vaughan (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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There seems a lot that do it, and some that get caught.PeterLe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:56 amI thought Id post this whilst i remember![]()
Ive been following what happened to Navinder Sarao who was considered (rightly or wrongly) to have caused the flash crash of 2010. It recen;t went to court in the US and he escaped a lengthy jail sentence.
he was a self taught trader who amassed around £90m and earned upto £90K a day from his mum and dads back bedroom!![]()
He had a program written for him that essentially submitted many spoof bets (mhmm that sound familiar![]()
Well there is a book due out in written and audiobook next month
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Def one for the list and looking forward to reading it (oh and there is a film too soon, although with The big Short being the exception; these tend not to lend themselves too well to the big screen imo)
Summary
At 14.32 p.m. on May 6, 2010, stock markets around the world simultaneously crashed without warning, wiping out trillions of dollars and creating havoc. The incident, dubbed 'The Flash Crash', exposed the shaky foundations propping up today's hyper-fast, computer-dominated financial system.
Government hearings, academic papers and a sweeping US investigation followed but, for years, its cause remained a mystery. Then, on April 21, 2015, two dozen police officers and FBI agents descended on a shabby suburban street in Hounslow to arrest an unlikely figure: Navinder Singh Sarao, a slight, doe-eyed 36-year old second-generation British Indian who - despite never having set foot in an investment bank - had earned more than $60 million trading futures in the same bedroom he'd slept in since he was a boy.
Sarao was a genuine savant, a one-in-a-million talent for whom making money in the markets was just another computer game to perfect. But he also had a steely, stubborn side. In 2009, frustrated by what he and many others saw as the unfair advantage enjoyed by multibillion-dollar high-frequency trading firms, Sarao had built a computer system that ‘spoofed’ his rivals into trading how he wanted.
He called it ‘NavTrader’, and the US government says it contributed to the biggest crash in the history of financial markets. The Flash Crash tells the unlikely story of how a streetwise, working-class outsider from West London who lived with his parents and never had a job came to outsmart some of the richest and most sophisticated investors in the world, raking in millions of pounds until the fateful day his doomsday machine worked too well, and he stood accused of bringing the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
©2019 Liam Vaughan (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
At what point does it translate from a genuine trading tactic to manipulation?
Is it illegal, and why?
It sounds like a bluffing tactic, that could go horribly wrong if executed poorly...so there are risks too.
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Speaking of books found this little bundle in a bag upstairs. I've bags like this all over the place, its almost like an Easter egg hunt for books! I really should be more organised
Might revisit some of these during the lockdown!
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Might revisit some of these during the lockdown!
https://imgur.com/a/aiZkKqG
This book is what I'm currently listening to. I now want to bell curve the scale of human consciousness. I can pretty much visualise what it would look like & know that I'm pretty much jumping from one side to the other on a daily basis, probably because of the current levels of uncertainty. Anyway, its decent listen so far if you have nothing else.
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For individuals who are pretty well centred in general & already have a good understanding in this area it probably wont give you anything too informative but it's still an interesting listen.
For me, the bell curve I said I could visualise is more like a half pipe & I'm the skater.
For me, the bell curve I said I could visualise is more like a half pipe & I'm the skater.
From a manual trading perspective I'm going to use this map to judge where I am when opening a trade... I can see from this where on the map I was when I very first started trading & where I am at the present point in time. Far more experienced traders will be higher up the map than I am, but my theory is, the higher up in conciousness you open a trade, the higher up in conciousness you close a trade when it's not going your way, I believe its probably similar to Peter's mini max theory.
Sorry if I'm irritating some of you but there is only so much I can do out in the garden Haha.
Sorry if I'm irritating some of you but there is only so much I can do out in the garden Haha.
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MorningPeterLe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:56 amI thought Id post this whilst i remember![]()
Ive been following what happened to Navinder Sarao who was considered (rightly or wrongly) to have caused the flash crash of 2010. It recen;t went to court in the US and he escaped a lengthy jail sentence.
he was a self taught trader who amassed around £90m and earned upto £90K a day from his mum and dads back bedroom!![]()
He had a program written for him that essentially submitted many spoof bets (mhmm that sound familiar![]()
Well there is a book due out in written and audiobook next month
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Def one for the list and looking forward to reading it (oh and there is a film too soon, although with The big Short being the exception; these tend not to lend themselves too well to the big screen imo)
I just finished reading this and though it may be of interest to the members on here
I mentioned a few weeks ago that a new book was due out called Flash Crash by Liam Vaughan. It tells the story of Navinder Singh Sarao, a UK based day trader who traded the stock market from a standing start (from his bedroom) to amass a fortune of ~£70m!..and then supposedly loose it...
Enjoyed reading it, although a large proportion of the book is centered on the regulatory side of things.
Some soundbites I took:
- Nav was sell taught
- His strategy was a simple scalping technique, by placing orders out of the money (on what we class as the back side), to skew the weight of money to give the appearance that sellers were in the market. Ie to push the price down. Tactics that are used on Betfair every day (probably by a few of us on here
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- He ended up using a standard platform “Trading Technologies” (TT) and had some additional features programmed in by a software engineer at TT. He subsequently had a guy from Edge Technologies to further enhance those features and add a couple more (to take on the HFT’s)
- He wasn’t 100% on auto. Rather, he traded manually with these extra “weapons” as he describes it
- He didn’t write any of his own code
- At his peak he was making upto £900K/Day
- He never spent anything! (Think he treated himself to a new bike and the odd McDonalds:-)
- He attributed his success to his pattern recognition and fast reactions, the numbers dont lie, so can you doubt it?
If anything I think the book tried to paint a picture of his character, that I didn’t quite like. A bit of a dis service to him IMO. He is obviously a clever guy and its not always possible to determine intelligence or judge someone on how they come across that is perhaps different to the norm.
I dont think this will lend itself to a film/movie (Unlike The Big Short), However, it does make a good story and especially to us on here as a glimpse of the art of the possible!!
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This is very encouraging to know, I feel that's the core of good trading on a betting exchange as well, particularly manual HFT which can be further augmented with all sorts of clever servants.
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That's a decent amount, even Jim Simons only manages iro $3.5m a day
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The other takeaway from Jim Simon's firm Renaissance (apart from 30yrs of 66% returns which has made him more money than old man Buffett) is that the 300 employees each have at least $50m of their own money in the fund. Sounds like the wages are decent!