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editFive Rings Capital
editHi. I am interested in making an article of Five Rings. It's quite well known in the quantitative propietary trading firm circles.
Problem is despite its prestige, I can't seem to find any good sources on it. It's really hard to find anything on it from a reliable source.
Want to know if anyone is able to find something on it?
Imcdc Contact 06:07, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- Interesting/Strange! I googled "five rings capital" and went to www.fiverings.com which has no information at all on what the organisation is or does. It does however prominently mention campuses - so is it a teaching institution - doubt it. Most of the webiste is about recruiting programmers - and whilst required skills & computer languages get mentioned, I could discern no mention of what it is that they program to do. Hmm. -- SGBailey (talk) 07:04, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- They likely stare at screens all day or work from home. A quick look at www.fiverings.com shows its located in London and NYC. They hire traders and it also states: "New hires work both independently and with others to develop ideas and analyses, and integrate them into our trading strategies and systems." Which means they have a team of traders (day traders?) at workstations that work the exchanges with in-house customized software developed by their programmers. Its devoid of financial/investment disclosures, but there are business review sites like glassdoor.com with some info. On Investopedia they are listed as a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Firm here. Modocc (talk) 12:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
- Five Rings is basically a High-frequency trading that uses computers and programs to trade securities like equities or bonds in milliseconds. A firm like Jane Street Capital can trade over $13 billion in global equities in a single day.
- However unlike similar peers like Jane Street or Citadel Securities, there is just nothing on Five Rings especially from a reliable source. They are very secretive. So I guess there's no point pursuing this until some major news org decides to cover them in depth. Imcdc Contact 11:16, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- They likely stare at screens all day or work from home. A quick look at www.fiverings.com shows its located in London and NYC. They hire traders and it also states: "New hires work both independently and with others to develop ideas and analyses, and integrate them into our trading strategies and systems." Which means they have a team of traders (day traders?) at workstations that work the exchanges with in-house customized software developed by their programmers. Its devoid of financial/investment disclosures, but there are business review sites like glassdoor.com with some info. On Investopedia they are listed as a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Firm here. Modocc (talk) 12:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Duquesne College, Pittsburgh
editCan anyone help me find information on this institution? All I know about it is that one of its presidents, John Black, was a conservative Presbyterian minister who lived in Pittsburgh from 1800 to 1849; it's far too early for the current Duquesne University, and it can't be a prior Catholic institution, since neither the Presbyterian nor the Catholics would have accepted the other. Everything I find with Google is about the current university, and here in Australia I don't have access to offline resources. Nyttend (talk) 21:45, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
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in the year 1844 a charter was granted by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county to Duquesne College, an institution which was an offshoot from the Western University of Pennsylvania.
"[1] Its first president, until his death, was Robert Bruce, who before that was chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania.[2] Our article on Bruce calls it "College Duquesne" and describes the "offshoot" as a secession. Every snippet I find establishes the college as firmly Presbyterian. Apparently it ceased to operate as an autonomous institution by that name by 1883.[3] --Lambiam 11:05, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Duquesne College Application for a Charter - August 12, 1843. Alansplodge (talk) 11:17, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- A tantalising snippet about Bruce and the founding of the college from Google Books:
- "... group of students who felt that he had been pushed out by members of the Board of Trustees who wanted a more progressive curriculum. The next year he obtained a charter for a Duquesne College, and in rented rooms the master and his students carried on until his death in 1846".
- The Voice that Speaketh Clear, Arthur Milton Young. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1957 (p. 36). Alansplodge (talk) 11:38, 20 November 2023 (UTC)