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Personal Finance Maxims

Read this New York Times article about Harold Pollack, a University of Chicago professor that wrote some maxims of personal finance onto an index card, and subsequently published a book Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated. The original index card is found here. The article compiled a number of other index cards written … Continue reading

Right of Order Refusal with Barclays’ Electronic FX Trading System

Came across an old (November 2015) Bloomberg article on Barclays’ Last Look functionality in their electronic FX trading system. While there have been lots of complaints from retail FX traders that their orders would run into “technical difficulties” once their trades become too profitable, the article confirms that institutional traders have the same issues when … Continue reading

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