- Stand up for Dairy Security Act
- By Tom Quaife | @05-08-12
- On April 19, a coalition of 29 dairy organizations sent a letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee, urging inclusion of the Dairy Security Act in the next Farm Bill. Their letter said federal policy should focus on the margins between milk prices and feed costs rather than just focusing ...
- High-Frequency Traders Like 'Rats' in a Granary: Munger
- By Matthew J. Belvedere | @05-08-12
- Allowing high-frequency computer traders into the stock market is like letting "rats in the granary," Warren Buffett’s right-hand man said in an exclusive interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "Take the rapid trading by the computer geniuses with the computer algorithms," said Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Buffett’s Berkshire ...
- Fraud Epidemic a Battle for Regulators
- By Neil Behrmann | @05-07-12
- Global regulators are uncovering an epidemic of financial frauds in the US, Europe and Asia. So much so, that investors need to be on high alert to protect their savings from scams. It may sound alarmist, but independent auditors or lawyers should carry out spot checks on their clients' ...
- The Poker Face of Wall Street Calls NHTSA's Bluff
- From Internet | @05-07-12
- We read uber-Risk Manager and author of The Poker Face of Wall Street, Aaron Brown's post "Sympathy for the Flash Crash" in Minyanville, a business and investment information website, with great enthusiasm. It was fascinating to see a business pundit draw parallels between Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the flash crash ...
- The authors created a model of an order book "which is populated by a community of HFT-ers and a community of (slow) liquidity traders. The HFT-ers operate at a much faster scale than the liquidity providers. They also place and cancel a large number
of orders (which is indeed what happens; HFT can account for over half of the trades on a typical day). - From Internet | @05-07-12
- It seems like every day now that we find a new academic paper that refutes many of the high frequency traders claims that they are helping the market. This time we present to you a paper titled "A Multiscale Model of High Frequency Trading" written by Andrei ...
- High-frequency traders are making a push into one of the last bastion's of traditional trading, the London Metal Exchange (LME), which maintains Europe's last open outcry trading pit.
- From Internet | @05-07-12
- High-frequency traders are making a push into one of the last bastion's of traditional trading, the London Metal Exchange (LME), which maintains Europe's last open outcry trading pit. Fixnetix, the UK-based co-location service provider, has announced that it will connect to the LME, the world's leading base metal market, to offer ...
- CEO Seth Merrin Says Exchange Consolidation is Dead
- From Internet | @05-07-12
- http://www.liquidnet.com/docs/liquidnetBuzz/pressReleases/2012/WECPressRelease.pdf Please click here to download. ...
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