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avvt4avaw commented on Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M   cnbc.com/2025/07/04/india... · Posted by u/bwfan123
alephnerd · 2 months ago
This behavior became common in the Indian market after the newer HFTs (Edit: hedge funds. Thanks for the callout avvt4avaw) in the Indian market like Millenium, Jane Street, Citadel, and others setup shop, and explains a LOT of the market weirdness that happened last year. DE Shaw India has been a much smarter player in Indian equities.

Jane Street's kvetching about Millenium showed the spotlight and now everyone will be getting the hammer ("iss hamam mein sabh nange hain"). Jane Street was also dumb enough to do this during the General Election, so now Indian regulators have to do something. This plus the Adani prosecution is a quick win to restore confidence in SEBI.

avvt4avaw · 2 months ago
This is a very weird use of terminology. None of Jane Street, Millennium or Citadel are High Frequency Traders (HFTs). Jane Street is a prop trading firm who engages in market making, but is not primarily known for HFT - they are grey box (i.e. human-in-the-loop) which on the spectrum of market making strategies, is pretty much the opposite end from HFTs. Other firms in this bracket include SIG and DRW.

Millennium and Citadel are both hedge funds, who do not engage in market making at all. They are most similar to other multi-strategy hedge funds like Balyasny or Point72.

You may be thinking of Citadel Securities, who are a market making firm and do engage in high frequency trading. Other large and well known HFT firms include Hudson River Trading, Tower Research, Jump Trading, Virtu, IMC and Optiver.

avvt4avaw commented on What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics   humans.maxcomperatore.com... · Posted by u/willbc
avvt4avaw · 3 months ago
Why do the estimated births/deaths per second counters have so much flicker? Surely you don't actually believe that the expected number of births/deaths per second fluctuates at 1dp precision multiple times per second?
avvt4avaw · 3 months ago
> The continuously updating global population counter is based on current aggregate birth and death rates (approximating values such as those from the U.S. Census Bureau International Database or UN DESA). The "live" births and deaths per second are statistically generated fluctuations around these averages to enhance the dynamic feel.

Ok, so you added high-frequency random noise to the estimated averages to make it feel more realistic. To me, this makes it feel less realistic.

Anyway, don't mean to gripe, this is a cool project!

avvt4avaw commented on What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics   humans.maxcomperatore.com... · Posted by u/willbc
avvt4avaw · 3 months ago
Why do the estimated births/deaths per second counters have so much flicker? Surely you don't actually believe that the expected number of births/deaths per second fluctuates at 1dp precision multiple times per second?
avvt4avaw commented on Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition   map.koljapluemer.com... · Posted by u/blackbrokkoli
avvt4avaw · 5 months ago
Some Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people may take issue with your definition of "England"
avvt4avaw commented on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more   blog.plover.com/lang/etym... · Posted by u/JNRowe
avvt4avaw · 7 months ago
Adam => Ad => Adkin/Atkin => Atkins/Atkinson
avvt4avaw commented on GM parks claims driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums   theregister.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/pseudolus
pitaj · 8 months ago
I am having trouble making sense the word "parks" in the title. Is "GM parks" an entity, or is this a mistake and "parks" is just an extra verb in there?
avvt4avaw · 8 months ago
They are using "parks" to mean "settles"
avvt4avaw commented on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)   slate.com/human-interest/... · Posted by u/pmoriarty
dmarchand90 · 2 years ago
Could you recommend such a "proper" cookbook
avvt4avaw · 2 years ago
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

- Ruhlman's 20 by Michael Ruhlman

- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

avvt4avaw commented on Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size   scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/w... · Posted by u/casca
Gordonjcp · 3 years ago
Milk is sold in litres in the UK, it's really only beer that's sold in pints.
avvt4avaw · 3 years ago
The most common sizes for milk to be sold in are 1.136 litres and 2.272 litres (i.e. 2 pints and 4 pints)
avvt4avaw commented on OptiFi Program Incident Report   medium.com/@OptiFi/optifi... · Posted by u/gscott
radicalbyte · 3 years ago
I can take a box containing 1001 conkers, sell one to you for $1000, then claim that I have $1m in my bucket.

What was lost was not money, but electronic conkers of which a small number people paid real money for.

avvt4avaw · 3 years ago
The currency was USDC, which is a stablecoin pegged at $1 by Circle (www.circle.com) who are generally held to be reputable, so it very much was real money.
avvt4avaw commented on Ask HN: How can I learn macroeconomics properly?    · Posted by u/techsin101
hnxs · 3 years ago
Do you have any recs? I currently use VTWAX, VTIAX, and VTSAX as my index funds. Even split between all three. I would appreciate any recommendations on what to change in terms of allocation.
avvt4avaw · 3 years ago
They are all very good choices.

u/avvt4avaw

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