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by nly 502 days ago
I've never met a fellow software engineer who "centers divs" for 6 figures.

But then I work with engineers using FPGAs to trade in the markets with tick to trade times in double digit nanoseconds and processing streams of market data at ~10 million messages per second (80Gbps)

The truth is, a lot of P&L in trading these days is a technical feat of mathematics and engineering and not just one of fundamental analysis and punting on business plans

2 comments

If you were smart surely there would be easier ways for you to make that money ;)
If you were really smart surely you would be able to see that there are more long-term valuable things for you to do with your time than just make yourself more money...
If you are smart that is the easy way to make money!
>I've never met a fellow software engineer who "centers divs" for 6 figures.

But did you ever meet fellow engineers who don't take everything literally?