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Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading
Alexander Barzykin, Philippe Bergault, Olivier Gu\'eant, Malo Lemmel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20225 https://

Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading
Over the past decade, many dealers have implemented algorithmic models to automatically respond to RFQs and manage flows originating from their electronic platforms. In parallel, building on the foundational work of Ho and Stoll, and later Avellaneda and Stoikov, the academic literature on market making has expanded to address trade size distributions, client tiering, complex price dynamics, alpha signals, and the internalization versus externalization dilemma in markets with dealer-to-client a…

The Chinese can pump or dump the Trump family's net worth by billions any time they want to.
The response will be predictably Pavlovian.
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115448291085354467

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image recent price chart for the #TRUMP #memecoin shows a massive crash in price on the left (when Trump announced new tariffs on #china) and a massive pump just now (when Trump TACOed and announced there would be a trade deal with china). 99.9% of TRUMP trading happens on offshore #crypto exchanges that are controlled by chinese nationals and banned from operating within the US. every $1 the price moves up the trump family gets a billion dollars and every $1 the price goes down…

Guess the price in today's dollars! (Solution in a reply.)
#retrocomputing

Shaheds, Dollars, and Beijing: How China Powers Russia's Drone Production in Alabuga: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/shaheds-dollars-and-beijing-how.html

Just look at the start of chapter 12 of “It can’t happen here” with an excerpt of the book of dear leader. Sound familiar, doesn’t it?
I'm still wondering whether Trump (or his writer(s)) could be sued for plagiarism?
#SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere

I don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)

Amazon Web Services announces AWS RTB Fabric, a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers, aiming to cut integration hours between ad tech partners (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/amazons-next-frontier-in-ad…

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on
The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself -- the rails on which the entire system runs.

Den Namen Limbach kennt man, wenn man sich öfter auf deutschen Flugplätzen ("Verkehrslandeplatz") bewegt hat.
Auch, wenn man selbst ohne eigenen Motor in der Luft war.
Früher war es "Schlimmbach", wenn der Falke nicht von einem Rotax-Motor angetrieben wurde. Aber das ist ein völlig anderes schlimm:
« ... Limbach Aircraft is wholly owned by Fujian Delong Aviation Technology Co., Ltd, which also owns the German company Limbach Flugmotoren GmbH, one of the w…

Shaheds, Dollars, and Beijing: How China Powers Russia's Drone Production in Alabuga
Exclusive report - export data, open-source investigation, and insider analysis

Journalists from The New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy,
which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment.
Since the policy was first announced, we have expressed concerns that it constrains how journalists can report on the U.S. military,
which is funded by nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars annually.
The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating.
T…

A Statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s Press Pass Policy | The New York Times Company
Journalists from The New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy, which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment.

Sadly, Elon Musk could not stand being 2nd richest man only, so he spent a billion dollars on pumping the Tesla share price to ensure his top spot on the list of #shame.