Traders cautious on exchanges tie-up
(Financial Times - Jeremy Grant) Some of the largest electronic trading companies have given a qualified welcome to the proposed combination of Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext, warning that while it...
View ArticleSubpoenas Go Out to High-Speed Trade Firms
(Wall Street Journal) U.S. regulators, intensifying their probe of last year's "flash crash" and other market swings, have sent subpoenas to firms that do high-frequency trading, according to people...
View ArticleBlame High Frequency Trading? No.
(CNBC - Bob Pisani) More on high frequency trading (HFT). I called a fairly large HFT toward the close and asked how much money he had made today.read more...
View ArticleComputers Blamed (Again) for the Market's Woes
(The Atlantic - Alexis Madrigal) As the Dow has yo-yo'd through the past week, a familiar criticism has risen from the crowd. It's the computers fault!read more...
View ArticleTick Rate Hits New Highs, Indicating HFT Activity
(Traders Magazine - James Armstrong) Bloomberg is reporting an unprecedented number of quotes in recent days, rising to new highs on Wednesday even as overall volume was down slightly, an indication of...
View ArticleLord Myners calls for inquiry on 'black box' trading
(The Telegraph - James Quinn/Harry Wilson) - Lord Myners has called on the Government to launch a focused inquiry into so-called "black box" computerised trading in the wake of extreme volatility in...
View ArticleBlack box trading is the real hazard to markets, says Lord Myners
(Guardian - Simon Bowers) Former City minister Lord Myners, an investment industry veteran, has redoubled his attack on high-frequency "black box" share trading, which he believes has exacerbated the...
View ArticleHow Linux Mastered Wall Street
(PC World Business - Joab Jackson) When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux, at least according...
View ArticleFIA FIA PTG And FIA EPTA Provide Regulators With Views On the Impact Of...
(Mondo Visione) The FIA Principal Traders Group and the FIA European Principal Traders Association today released their joint response to a consultation report issued by the International Organization...
View ArticleUptick rule replaces flash trading as market scapegoat
(moneycontrol.com) Bring back the uptick rule? It's the new bogeyman, but the odds of it coming back are not great, and the odds that it would destroy high frequency trading is not great either.read...
View ArticleA New Era of Regulation
(Clearing & Settlement) The news reported by Reuters last week that the Securities Exchange Commission had been issuing subpoenas to high frequency trading firms, in addition to the recent voting...
View ArticleHigh Frequency Trading and Market Disruption
(Clearing & Settlement) The market turmoil of the last few weeks has left many fearing that we’re on our way to a repeat of 2008’s crash. With stocks plummeting on both sides of the Atlantic, there...
View ArticleThe Right and Wrong of High-Frequency Trading: Grasso
(CNBC - Gennine Kelly) High-frequency trading should not be broadly categorized as one strategy, Dick Grasso, the former chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange told CNBC Monday.read more...
View ArticleThe Robin Hood tax: a small step for capitalism, a big stride for development
(Guardian blog) With high frequency trading on the rise, a modest transaction tax could raise significant revenue for the global fight against poverty.read more...
View ArticleIs High-Speed Computer Trading Killing Investing?
(CNBC - John Melloy) High speed computer trading by funds with holding periods of sometimes just milliseconds are to blame for rising volatility, the disappearance of diversification and the death of...
View ArticleThree ways to get the trading edge
(City AM) IN the high-frequency forex-trading sphere, it is latency of executions that grabs the headlines – that is the delay between an order being sent to a venue, and the venue executing that...
View ArticleOptiver sets aside $19 mln for CFTC oil probe
(Reuters - David Sheppard & Jonathan Spicer) High-frequency trading firm Optiver Holding BV has set aside $19.3 million to deal with one of the biggest oil-manipulation cases ever brought by the...
View ArticleTed Kaufman: We must cure ailing financial markets
(TheAdvertiser.com - Ted Kaufman) Our historically free, fair and credible markets are in danger. Investors from all over the world once came here to invest because they believed in our markets’...
View ArticleSweden could regulate high-frequency trade-minister
(Reuters) - Sweden wants to check whether high-frequency trades on the stock market increase volatility and could consider some form of regulation, the country's financial markets minister said on...
View ArticleGetco offers rare insight into Europe strategy...
(Financial News - Tim Cave) US-based Getco, the secretive high-frequency trading firm, has delivered rare insight into its European strategy by revealing it has given its backing to the London Stock...
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