Hiding from Google
Received a curious message from Google. In line with the “right to be forgotten“, somebody mentioned on this website actually submitted such a request. People who wish to be forgotten usually have a history of petty crime or similar misbehavior they are rightfully ashamed of.
Here’s the full message from Mountain View :
Hello,
Due to a request under data protection law in Europe, we are no longer able to show one or more pages from your site in our search results in response to some search queries for names or other personal identifiers. Only results on European versions of Google are affected. No action is required from you.
These pages have not been blocked entirely from our search results, and will continue to appear for queries other than those specified by individuals in the European data protection law requests we have honored. Unfortunately, due to individual privacy concerns, we are not able to disclose which queries have been affected.
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The following URLs have been affected by this action:
https://www.amsterdamtrader.com/2013/06/millionaire-traders-under-40.html
Regards,
The Google Team
The good news is only fourteen people are mentioned in the post. A few short trial and error searches revealed a former Optiver low frequency trader doesn’t want to be found. Locked twitter account. Linkedin profile without picture for outsiders.
Why Simon Soet requested removal from Google? Beats me. After all, he was only mentioned because he did well as trader for Optiver. Earned 4 million. Nothing to be ashamed of, I would say. Maybe Simon is planning a career at a socialist political party.
How is Tibra doing these days?
Soet is the Dutch word for sweet.
4 mln? Sweet nothing
it sounds less like simon and more like ivo who would waste his time on such petty little stunt
“How is Tibra doing these days?”
Well thanks. And you?
is this site now about this site?
is that a comment about this site about this site?
nobody cares, next
will google hide this page as well then?
yes, it hasn’t got anything better to do with its miserable life
It is company culture to keep a low profile.Head of trading back in the day used to brainwash everyone to be super secretive about their job, not network outside too much etc. The crazy thing was everyone was told to mention they are AEX traders. The whole marble bonus system was socialist to the core. Top traders paying for the non-performing ones
speaking of low profile, hows akuna doing these days? havent heard much about it
when you say ‘company culture to keep a low profile’, are you refering to Optiver?
Driver and kroon walking. Insurance covers are only restricted to losses ans settlement claims. Surely there must be criminal claims not covered by the policy….
Hi Jack,
perhaps John Doe (Fulanito or Juan Sin Nombre in spanish) doesn´t want his wife or the tax man knew he did earn so much bucks…
Hombre, this is the Netherlands. You can’t really hide your money from the tax man – the source is public information.
Don’t know why Simon Soet is shy about his millions..
why are you jumping to conclusion that it’s simon and not ivo?
If you are in the EU you can check.
Google “Simon Soet” site:amsterdamtrader.com
Although this post will probably found. The other one won’t show up.
who cares, simon is a classic eg of optiver promoting one of the dutchchies to an ill-suited position, he might have been very good on single stocks, but there was only so much he knew about delta one, well at least he tried to clean up the legacy dead wood in that team, that aside he should have stayed in the area of his expertise and where optiver was seriously lacking top people
which firms are ready to trade the chinese etf options on monday?
how much volume do u expect on day one?
I ask to you:
-are you gonna make market on Shanghai Stock Exchenge ?
-which Stock Exchange is gonna waive ETF stamp-duty in short?
if there are no volumes, people are not going to waste time making markets?
If that were true, there would be no market makers in options on Dutch smallcaps like Brunel or NSI.
I get lost in a noddles wok. Are we talking about Shanghai ETF options or Dutch smallcalps options? The average chinese investor doesn´t understand ETFs , much less options.
Take a look to my website (blogging in english in short), directly from (as I told to Jack) the ham republic of Spain.
http://www.quebrokerelegir.com
i had a conversation with a friend who works at akuna.. sounds like theyre still using the orc’s old wing model for vol surfaces (at least for their biggest desk – snp) and recently tried to switch over to the more recent spline model with very little success (he mentioned it cost something along the lines of 250k mistake).
so, what shops are using which models and is it that hard to move over from one to another?
if there are no volumes in Brunel or NSI, why are people still making markets?
what’s there to understand in an etf, it’s an average on a set of underlying prices
jack, why is this guy getting to advertise free on your blog?
optiver moved to spline a few years ago.. didnt have any problems like akuna had.. guess optiver had a bigger and better developer/quant team
what the limitation in old wing model and what are advantages of new recent spline model?
optiver has bigger and better developer/quant team, wow, you got a real talent for reaching hard to figure conclusions
to his point, akuna does boast about how nimble they are and how quick turn around they have with transition that other bigger companies can’t manage because of their size.
Optiver have quants?
yes optiver has ‘quants’
of course a small firm would always reach for ‘nimbleness’ since that’s their only defense against the ‘size’ of the bigger competitor, when are you guys going to learn to look past the marketing bs?
Lol @ Jack the sneaky fucker making Simon submit a new request for 6 months later to be removed again =D
its actually simon who is being sneaky fukcer for trying to be ‘forgotten’, be a man