- High-Frequency Trading at the Speed of Light
- From Internet | @05-29-12
- High-Frequency Trading at the Speed of Light High-frequency traders are playing the system profiting from the 11 millisecond time difference between Chicago and New York, with CNBC's Eamon Javers. Jon Najarian, TradeMonster.com co-founder, weighs in. High-Frequency Trading at the Speed of Light ...
- Position on Revised Proposals for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)
- From Internet | @05-25-12
- 1. FIA EPTA believes in a comprehensive regulatory framework and as such supports Article 2(1)(d), which would require authorisation of all market participants with memberships to regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities. 2. FIA EPTA members purely trade their own capital and are reliant on their own risk controls to preserve this capital. FIA ...
- High-Frequency Trading
- BY Peter Gomber | @05-25-12
- High-frequency trading (HFT) has recently drawn massive public attention fuelled by the U.S. May 6, 2010 flash crash and the tremendous increases in trading volumes of HFT strategies. Indisputably, HFT is an important factor in markets that are driven by sophisticated technology on all layers of the trading value chain. However, ...
- THE RISE OF COMPUTERIZED HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING: USE AND CONTROVERSY
- By MICHAEL J. MCGOWAN | @05-25-12
- Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic shift in how securities are traded in the capital markets. Utilizing supercomputers and complex algorithms that pick up on breaking news, company/stock/economic information and price and volume movements, many institutions now make trades in a matter of microseconds, through a practice known as ...
- High-Speed Trading: Be Careful What You Wish For
- By Ben Levisohn | @05-25-12
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My colleague Kirsten Grind had a story in Thrusday's paper about how a small group of "market wonks" is planning a new trading venue designed solely for mutual-fund managers.
The article, "Mutual Funds Promised Haven from Speedsters," says the trading platform will seek:
to protect fund managers by ...
- Nasdaq, Direct Edge Move to Tame Quote Traffic
- BY MATT JARZEMSKY | @05-25-12
- Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and Direct Edge Holdings LLC will introduce financial penalties in coming weeks on traders who send to the exchanges heavy loads of quotes that don't lead to trades. The number of so-called trade messages, which are "bid" or "sell" offers sent to the exchange, has ...
- More Fallout From the Facebook Fiasco
- BY Bob Pisani | @05-25-12
- More fallout from the Facebook debacle: Nasdaq and Direct Edge are introducing fees on high-frequency traderswho send large numbers of cancelled trades to their exchanges. The Direct Edge fees begin on June 1. The New York Stock Exchange is not currently charging, but is evaluating ...
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