Category Archives: Workshops

The Future of Speed Trading at World’s Most Influential High-Frequency Trading Conference

Posted on October 18, 2012 by jli38

High-frequency trading is fundamentally based on how market participants (for this discussion I’m talking about stock markets) place their orders to buy and sell shares and how HFT players act on those orders. For every stock that’s traded there is always … Continue reading →

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Speed Trading Who’s Who at High Frequency Trading Debate Tomorrow October 9 in Chicago

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Innovator

A who’s who in the industry is gathering tomorrow Tuesday at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2012 Chicago, How Knight Capital’s ‘Knightmare on Wall Street’ Could Transform the Regulatory Landscape and Impact Investors, Speed Traders and Brokers”, conference that will … Continue reading →

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From Daily Finance: High-Frequency Trading -Just a Lot of Noise

Posted on August 30, 2012 by yocijourney

Back to the basics For starters, let’s remember why there’s a stock market in the first place. When companies are getting started, they might need extra cash to carry out their stated mission. By selling the company to public investors, … Continue reading →

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High-Frequency Trading Pioneer: Today’s Drive For Speed ‘Has Absolutely No Social Value’

Posted on August 30, 2012 by yocijourney

….Back then Peterffy’s efforts tended to frighten and confuse the market locals, but pretty soon everybody was using computers for trading. Fast-forward to today, when trading robots have become so ubiquitous that high-speed trading makes up more than half of all stock-market … Continue reading →

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High-Frequency Trading Expert to Bring Unique Speed Trading Workshop to Shanghai

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Innovator

The Speed Traders unveiled dates today for Edgar Perez’s full-day seminars, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX in Shanghai, September 5th, presentations that … Continue reading →

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Social benefits of high frequency trading

Posted on August 24, 2012 by yocijourney

The evolution of financial markets through technological development has been going on for centuries, with criticism about such developments going back to the invention of the telegraph in the mid-19th century. And so it goes with the comparatively recent arrival … Continue reading →

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Foreign Regulators Take Lead On High-Frequency Trading

Posted on August 23, 2012 by yocijourney

Regulators overseas have proposed the stiffest rules yet aimed at curbing manipulative high-frequency trading, while U.S. regulators are still in the talking stages. Last month, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission issued a proposal that would require trading algorithms to be tested and … Continue reading →

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OSC head leans to the negative about high-frequency trading

Posted on August 21, 2012 by yocijourney

Howard Wetston, the head of the Ontario Securities Commission, believes that markets are fundamentally for long-term investors. That’s not a good sign if you are a high-frequency trader wondering what policy makers are going to do to your strategy of … Continue reading →

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How High Frequency Trading Robots Are Creating a Bumpy Ride for Main Street

Posted on August 14, 2012 by yocijourney

An “Air Pocket” stock is, by definition, any security that experiences a sudden drop in share price, much as an airplane experiences turbulence causing it to drop unexpectedly. Generally, these air pockets in stocks come as a result of negative … Continue reading →

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Technological innovation comes with huge risks in financial markets

Posted on August 7, 2012 by foargo9x

  Financial markets have greatly improved over the past quarter century. Trading costs, whether for small individual investors or large institutional investors, have declined sharply. The cuts going to middlemen are smaller, and many markets are deeper and more liquid than ever. … Continue reading →

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