Save the date, the Financial Tournament will be held again this year on May 25th. As usual on the pitch of FC Abcoude, with seven a side teams playing outdoor with indoor rules. But as I’ve checked with Ferry, the “scorpion kick” is allowed. You can register your team here and find last year’s pictures overRead more
My friend and used-to-be colleague Robert Coehoorn (1981-2013) passed away. During the past week, I kept thinking about the movie Sliding Doors. A movie about how someone’s future completely changes as a result of a single decision. On a Friday in the autumn of 2006 Robert came to interview at IMC. I spoke with anRead more
Better safe than sorry. I’m not fighting for a nobel cause, maintaining this website is just for fun. So when expensive park avenue law firms are demanding posts and a few hundred comments to be taken offline : they got it. Apart from visitor traffic going through the roof, there’s not much upside for meRead more
Tibra was founded by traders leaving Optiver in Australia, while possibly taking some trading software source code with them. Both firms are spending millions on lawyer fees ever since. A few weeks ago the party moved to a California court – something to do with the disclosure of emails by Google. Read for yourself, it’sRead more
It has been almost three and a half years since Van der Moolen went down. The company filed for bankruptcy September 10th 2009. A pity. Public trading firms burning money like VDM are thin on the ground. Their quarterly reports were juicy material. Fast forward to 2013. The court decided what everybody has always known,Read more
