Irene Aldridge Gets Death Threats Over Her Views On HFT, Pitches Book Again
Don't forget, Irene is merely the messenger... for very conflicted market participants who want nothing more than to perpetuate the current system. Yet her book is, presumably, her own product, in which, if one were to actually read it, one would likely find some discussion of Flash. Keep in mind this particular messenger was never heard or seen before Flash became the hot topic de jour. One wonders why this specialist on fair "computerized daytrading" never pointed out her misgivings about Flash before her suddenly numerous TV appearances. Do remember: keep your messengers closer.
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on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:20
#73958
Death threats? Yeah, right. "I wanna **** you to death." This is a distraction, albeit a beautiful one. SLP is where the crime is, whether it's GS, Timmaaay, or Saint Bernard.
****correct answer: love
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:21
#73962
What a bunch of crap. They think they can get away with it if they keep the HFT and dark pools and just run it blind without flash.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:25
#73964
I can't listen or watch her for two reason
a) her accent is like the one usually found in a Moldavian potato farmer asking you direction on how to get to Italy via Bosnia while trying to pitch you a Bible so he could pay the first installment to his trafficker
b) there is something about here that makes a man want to unleash his pack of rottweilers when she is anywhere around him
and on a side note; her book probably consists of wikipedia articles and theoretical knowledge on the matter, and the ethical view that all the people are fair and won't exploit the situation even if they have any means necessary to do so.
P.S. She probably has at least 20 restraining orders with here name on them; all granted to her former boyfriends ( she looks like a psycho to me; but than again i can be wrong on all of the above and thus make the case in favor of HTF and Irene'; and i do not wish to do so; so if you have any facts that are in support of this post, please post them here, and if you have any facts that oppose this view, please keep them to yourself; if this is an illusion; please don't spoil it )
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:45
#73990
hey CB, just in case you want to tell her personally to go F**k Herself.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/irene-aldridge/3/b62/822
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:57
#74003
Thanks Hrundi; i have already sent her an e-mail a month or so ago, when she appeared on CNBC ( ? =), filled with my own thoughts about her; her " book ", " opinion " and " spin ". Some of the words in that e-mail were; " bitch "; " are you THAT retarded "; " how much do they pay you; i hope more than Spitzers whore " etc. I mean, you're a smart guy; ou get my point; and I ended my e-mail with the eternal words of the great Jeff Macke " I'm gonna talk to you like a child; if you understand me; just say yeah " and i added; but its better you say nothing at all; and i included the song with the same title in the signature. Also, i felt a bit of a remorse afterwards; so i mailed her a YouTube link for the song; never call you bitch again.
She never responded.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:15
#74027
completely understand your point and awesome the way you deliver your venom, also glancing at her profile on linkedin under groups i believe she misunderstood that those were to be of membership not parties attended. i have lost all respect for INSEAD for allowing her to attend not that i had much to begin with.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 21:15
#74171
thanks for the laughs!
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 12:39
#74400
Cheeks you may want to bookmark this vid for your next email.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM2JrnGioLE
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:21
#74084
a) her accent is like the one usually found in a Moldavian potato farmer asking you direction on how to get to Italy via Bosnia while trying to pitch you a Bible so he could pay the first installment to his trafficker
you are so fucking brilliant in your analogies and descriptions that it, uh, ... brings tears to my eyes...FROM LAUGHING SO HARD!
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:47
#74103
CB: Kalhoz would have sufficed...lol
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:34
#73965
Her skin looks terrible here, she looks very haggard. Maybe those late nights with beaker are taking their toll...
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:39
#73983
She's getting death threats because she won't wash her hair.
Jesus, she makes Celine Dion look hot.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:46
#73992
Oh, B E H A V E!
Yeah, baby, yeah!
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:58
#74162
I think she's doing Gasparino and Beaker..but Beaker lost his job so Chuckie Cheese is more likely.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:43
#73988
Where is robotrader? I'm feeling significantly less informed/titallated than I normally do at this time of day (not necessarily in that order).
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:48
#73994
Way OT but sickening to read. I guess living off debt is a way of life for these crooks. I just wish the Government would quit supporting these assholes! But, I won't hold my breath.
Chrysler exec Jim Press owes IRS, credit union more than $1.4M
http://detnews.com/article/20090918/AUTO01/909180402/1148/Chrysler-exec-Jim-Press-owes-IRS--credit-union-more-than-$1.4M
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:19
#74032
Makes me want to hurt someone.
Incredible.
Paste this shit everywhere.
And we should dig up more. You know these fucks are doing this all over town and then complaining about the little guy and gal.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:56
#73997
She's being ghost written by millie vanilli who went into computer science after their singing career ended.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:16
#74029
LOL
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:01
#74111
To be fair, Millie is dead, or was it Vanilli, either way, that's some REAL ghost writing.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 09:33
#74365
LOL
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:52
#74000
I say lets go back to the day's when 200 people working for 6 firms on the floor of the NYSE had every single order, every bit of insider information and could correlation front run (huge order to sell Mobil comes to you and your firm sells Exxon before you let it fill) with no interference. Better yet lets make it so people can only invest in t-bills, cause those markets aren't pushed around.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 21:17
#74174
as soon as she brought guys in with jackets to rationalize her argument for HFT she lost...she is trying to say those guys were taking your money...now we are.
I'm pretty sure I can remember times when I had orders underneath the market where a print went off with the specialists and you would participate...was the system perfect...no.... but you could get a feel for the flows and gauge the market. Most specialists knew the rules and pretty much obeyed them.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 09:35
#74366
Most specialist knew the rules and pretty much obeyed them??? What are you on Crack???
They paid Dick Grasso how much??? to look otherway? It was a dean of crooks.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:04
#74011
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/irene-aldridge/3/b62/822
sorry for repost...
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:03
#74016
At least I learned why we are starting to see this strange new term, "financial engineering". Because Columbia University offers a Master's Degree in it.
Irene Aldridge’s Education
INSEAD
MBA , Management, Finance , 2000 — 2001
Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
MS , Financial Engineering , 1998 — 1999
Cooper Union
BE , Electrical Engineering , 1994 — 1998
Ummm... does that make her about 33 years old? What's with the grey hair?
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:03
#74017
oh jeez..anything to sell a book. "Death threats!!! Death threat!!!...read all about it in my new book on amazon.ca or amazon.com"
give me a freakin break.
if i told u all that i get death threats cuz of my website, would u all flock to it? lol
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:10
#74023
death threat ???? bitch; the only death threat you have ever seen was in a movie; apart from that maybe in your little imaginary world in which you're the CEO of GS. Death threat ? You don't know what death threat is; and no; no one will read buy, DL or pirate you're pathetic little book; i bet it will be another fine example of American education system i.e a snobbish, patronizing; verbally masqueraded pile of utter and worthless garbage.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:00
#74072
Well, the book may be pathetic. But don't you think you should read it before opining on it? It's also called primary research which no one is doing these days anymore...
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:47
#74099
Sure Verbal. When the book is actually for sale you get the honors. So in a surely overstated position, by speaking for the entire ZH contribution base, you are officially nominated to read it and report back. I'm not giving her one red cent. I've seen her enough to understand the message of the book and have much better reading to attend to.
http://www.amazon.com/High-Frequency-Trading-Practical-Algorithmic-Strategies/dp/0470563761/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253321195&sr=8-1
And you get free shipping!
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 21:54
#74194
I second that motion.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:32
#74142
You do turn a mean phrase-
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 21:00
#74163
CB--she's a French Canadian whore. Please don't lump her in with Americans.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 22:27
#74213
AMEN!!!
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:25
#74041
Easy, easy.....at least apply a little KY jelly while you ass rape that bitch.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:25
#74042
Bet she's wearing size 5, Jimmy Choo, sling back, cherry red, 6" high heel stilletoes under that desk..
yes.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 18:37
#74052
dont kid yourself--alot of scum in this business
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:03
#74075
Before my current real estate career, I was an application programmer. Object oriented scripting that I did would not be fast enough for HFT execution. The programs would need to be writen in assembler (best), or c and c++. The other problem that is a sham is that GS et al, have the holy grail - access to the servers that these scripts can run on. You get me that server access and me and my boy will code an HFT program good enough for a few mil a day. Oh, not kidding.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:04
#74115
No one has code that runs on the exchange matching engines. Not GS, not GETCO. No one.
You can get a server plugged into a switch to which the matching engine is connected, so that you are only a few micro-seconds away... and if you think you can easily turn that kind of access into a few $M / day, I suggest you call up any of the exchanges and speak with their sales departments, as they will happily rent you such rack space for what you would surely view as a nominal fee... (you would also need to work out a sponsored access relationship with a broker dealer - might want to give Penson a call).
You are correct that OO scripting would not cut it... but even if you were writing excellent assembly code on a fast machine co-located with the exchanges and using a broker-dealer for sponsored access (i.e., you were setup to trade as quickly as literally possible for anyone, including GS), you still need a trading strategy.
I can go buy the best canvas and paints in the world, but I'm still not going to make art...
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:06
#74117
Bullshit.
You could get sponsored access and a co-located server for what would be a small cost on a few mil / day... but you don't have a trading strategy.
Good canvas and paint doesn't make an artist.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 09:17
#74357
"writen in assembler(best)"
Hey Einstein, there's a reason that you're a Realtor now. Keep your fancy dreams to yourself ok? The inbound wires to the execution servers are teeming with pre-discovery. You and your "boy" would be eaten alive.
OhMy!
on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 09:16
#74846
These algos are not that complex, you could do very well with simple tick events. The edge for these algos is speed, adding complexity (more event processing) kills your time.
It's just a mo-mo thing, automated collusion.
You can get some out of the box stuff for 150kish or roll your own with open source.
on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 10:54
#74895
The trick is knowing something is going to happen "well" in advance.
If you want to cry out your order over the Internet, machines are listening.
"But it's a secure encrypted tunnel".
A very strange looking computer that is sitting in the NYSE NOC is a cousin of the infamous system know as; Carnivore.
on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 11:58
#74921
Yes, front running has always been a nice trick. You don't need much in the realm of algo development if you can access a "special" data stream.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:12
#74079
Who's the hag in the yellow jacket?
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:03
#74114
Be nice...this is BNN in Toronto. They actually have old fashioned reporters without facelifts, titjobs, cleavage, etc, like all the media up here. Some of the anchors at CTV and BNN actually look like they are relics from an entirely different era. Now maybe they aren't the most brilliant minds but they kind of remind me of FNN before NBC in the late 80's --they spend a great deal of time with guests (Irene is a Quebecqua and they didn't give her that much time in Canadian minutes to pump up her pre-orders at AMZN). BNN is free of all the shit of CNBS--Caruso Cabrera, Kudlow, Cramer, and Kneale free. When I am here in CA (which is 1/2 the time) I like to have it on in the background.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:17
#74128
+10
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 19:55
#74106
"i.e a snobbish, patronizing; verbally masqueraded pile of utter rubbish"
Hey that sounds exactly like a description of one of cheekys posts.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 12:39
#74399
Careful or you will feel the sharp edge of his wit yourself. In this case he was spot on. The worst offenders always seem to congregate in the big schools like Haaaavord, or the english departement of all the other universities.
Did you go to the US unis CB, or is this the informed oppinion of someone who has been forced to read the drivel that comes from these institutions?
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:02
#74113
Did anyone see UUP in afterhours? Is this a sign for things to come on monday?
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:18
#74130
so much for the GLD breakout
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:24
#74134
Looks like something is UUP. Thanks for pointing it out. No news I have heard of for the ramp but it would be good for a pullback in stocks Monday if it holds. The only thing out there of note was not much in the way of bank failures and the IMF selling gold. But with the onslaught of next week's auctions, it may just be a Friday night anomoly. BTW, lots of options activity in OCT over the last week on the UUP in call buying. Today, the P/C ratio 1 to 5 on $23 strike, $24 strike is quite interesting: open interest in puts is a whopping 2, call open interest is 19563.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 22:41
#74220
good to know (P/C ratio), thanks howard... it just seems odd to me that it came in like that in A/H, I don't know if I can chalk it up to anomoly at this point...we'll see what monday brings... cheers...
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 20:25
#74136
BNN is the brains and CNBC is the Zombies.
on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 23:09
#74227
Obama man planted into Fed. He came out with the pay cap reform project to be controlled by Fed:
The Obama administration wants the Federal Reserve to be the maximum regulator of the American financial system. As Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the Senate Banking Committee, “The Federal Reserve is best positioned to play that role. It already supervises and regulates bank holding companies, including all major U.S. commercial and investment banks.”
The problem, of course, is that most informed observers have concluded that the Fed failed to adequately supervise and regulate banks during the lead-up to the financial crisis. Count Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, in that camp. “There’s not a lot of confidence in the Fed at this point,” Dodd said right after the White House released its financial reform proposal.
This is where Daniel Tarullo makes his appearance. The newest member of the Federal Reserve has apparently authored a plan to have the central bank approve compensation policies potentially But previous to joining the Fed, Tarullo was an influential economic adviser in the Obama presidential campaign.
So now what we have, I think, is Obama’s man at the Fed pushing a politically savvy plan that could bolster the Fed’s standing as a tough regulator in the eyes of Congress and deflect some of the criticism of the central banks past failings. Score one for the White House in its push to make the Fed super-regulator.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 01:17
#74266
Wow--that's like putting William Quantrill in charge of protecting Lawrence, KS.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 03:30
#74294
Irene Aldridge? Does anyone even remotely care about what she is saying? I don't.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 07:29
#74334
lolz hey everybody - I finally got off my ass and put up that Wall Street Massacre video game I promised:
http://www.econocataclysm.com/kill-bernie-madoff-video-game/
Have a great weekend!!!
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 09:21
#74360
that was fun but... now my computer seems to be infected with some kind of virus and there's no money left in my bank accounts...
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 09:27
#74362
Woo hoo thanks that is fun. I enjoy the toilet cleaner ad too. 5 :-)'s
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 09:38
#74367
Write a book and you are an expert.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 12:57
#74407
Look at her profile on LinkedIn. She posts stuff on the groups there but her bio shows no relevant experience.
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 13:57
#74418
LOL; she's on Facebook; i just added her as a friend; i suggest all of you to do the same; so we could collectively make fun of here when she appears on TV the next time ( i'm hoping never )
on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 19:22
#74589
I thought she was right on the mark about all this flash order business. I will read her book.
on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 18:48
#75853
I wish she would take me down ... to funkytown ...
on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 04:53
#84943
hi
on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 04:55
#84944
hi