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Technology-focused Hedge Fund, AienTech, Closes after Making its Mark in FX as a Top Provider of Volume to Bank Platforms
New York-based, high-frequency trading (HFT) firm AienTech is closing down after almost three years in operation, its chief executive and founder Ugur Arslan has confirmed. Details surrounding the closure are not yet known. Launched in January 2011 with a staff … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, Foreign Exchange, High Frequency Trading, Practitioners, U.S. Economy, Wall Street
Tagged AienTech, arbitrage, artificial intelligence, chief executive, controls, financial markets, founder, hedge fund, HFT firm, high-frequency trading, multi-market, multi-strategy, New York, quantitative models, single-bank platforms, technology-focused, Ugur Arslan
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Drones Sending Lasers Across the Ocean? Welcome to the Race to Trade at the Speed of Light
In the wild, speed is the difference between killing or being killed, feeding or going hungry. Now more than ever, this is true in the shadowy concrete jungles of the world’s financial markets. Those currently trading who aren’t high-frequency traders, … Continue reading
Posted in Equity Markets, Finance, Flash Crash, high-frequency journalism, Market Making, NASDAQ, NYSE
Tagged ahead of the game, broken markets, buy or sell, feeding or going hungry, financial markets, hardware, hardware sophistication, high frequency traders, high-frequency trading, home day traders, horse race, killing or being killed, lack of information, market volume, money, ordinary investor, power, Sal Arnuk, software, software sophistication, speed, traders, traders on exchange, Wired
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OPEN LETTER to SEC Chairman Mary Jo White: Maintaining the Standing of the U.S. as the World’s Most Sophisticated Financial and Trading Market
Dear chairman Mary Jo White, As informed by NASDAQ after the August 22 incident, price quotes were not being disseminated by the Securities Information Processor (SIP) for three hours. There was a connectivity issue, which led to degradation in the … Continue reading
Posted in CFTC, Equity Markets, FINRA, High Frequency Trading, knight capital, NASDAQ, NYSE, Regulatory Updates, SEC, Wall Street
Tagged CFTC, Citadel, Den of Thieves, Direct Edge, Edgar Perez, Electronic Trading, Facebook, financial markets, GETCO, high-frequency trading, IBM, investors, IT department, Jersey City, KCG, KCG Holdings, Ken Pasternak, Knight capital, KNIGHTMARe ON WALL STREET, Liar’s Poker, Mary Jo White, Mary Schapiro, Michael Tobin, Microsoft, Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, operational risks, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Retail liquidity program, RLP, SEC, SEC Chairman, shareholders, SIFMA, software, The Flash Freeze, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets, The Speed Traders, TheFlashFreeze, Thomas Joyce, traders, trading disaster, Virtu Financial, Wall Street
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Maintaining the Standing of the U.S. as the World’s Most Sophisticated Financial and Trading Market
Knightmare on Wall Street‘s author, Edgar Perez, chastised U.S. regulators for their performance during NASDAQ’s “Flash Freeze”. Market participants appreciate visible leadership that goes beyond statements sent though press offices, he said. “Both individual and institutional investors would have felt … Continue reading
Posted in Equity Markets, Events, FINRA, Flash Crash, High Frequency Trading, knight capital, NASDAQ, NYSE, Regulatory Updates, SEC, Wall Street
Tagged CFTC, Citadel, Den of Thieves, Direct Edge, Edgar Perez, Electronic Trading, Facebook, financial markets, GETCO, high-frequency trading, IBM, investors, IT department, Jersey City, KCG, KCG Holdings, Ken Pasternak, Knight capital, KNIGHTMARe ON WALL STREET, Liar’s Poker, Mary Jo White, Mary Schapiro, Michael Tobin, Microsoft, Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, operational risks, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Retail liquidity program, RLP, SEC, SEC Chairman, shareholders, SIFMA, software, The Flash Freeze, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets, The Speed Traders, TheFlashFreeze, Thomas Joyce, traders, trading disaster, Virtu Financial, Wall Street
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Bob Greifeld, Nasdaq Chief, Defends Handling of Trading Halt
The New York Times report that the chief executive of the Nasdaq stock exchange, Robert Greifeld, on Friday shot back at criticism of how his exchange handled a three-hour halt in trading on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Greifeld said in an … Continue reading
Posted in Equity Markets, Market Making, NASDAQ, NYSE, SEC, World Exchanges
Tagged Bob Greifeld, Direct Edge, Edgar Perez, Electronic Trading, Facebook, financial markets, GETCO, high-frequency trading, IBM, investors, IT department, Jersey City, KCG, Ken Pasternak, Knight capital, KNIGHTMARe ON WALL STREET, Liar’s Poker, Mary Jo White, Mary Schapiro, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Nasdaq OMX, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, operational risks, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Robert Greifeld, SEC, software, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets, The Speed Traders, traders, trading disaster, Virtu Financial, Wall Street
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Nasdaq Investigating Problem That Forced Trading Halt, No Answers Yet
Forbes’ Steve Schaefer reports a technical issue led the Nasdaq stock market to halt all trading in shares listed on its exchange, and request fellow exchanges do the same. The New York Stock Exchange acknowledged it had done so at … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, Dark Pools, Equity Markets, High Frequency Trading, knight capital, NASDAQ, NYSE, SEC
Tagged Bob Greifeld, Direct Edge, Edgar Perez, Electronic Trading, Facebook, financial markets, investors, Jersey City, Knight capital, KNIGHTMARe ON WALL STREET, Liar’s Poker, Mary Jo White, Mary Schapiro, Nasdaq, Nasdaq OMX, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, operational risks, Robert Greifeld, SEC, software, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets, The Speed Traders, traders, trading disaster, Virtu Financial, Wall Street
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Edgar Perez, Presenter at HFT Conference in New York, Advocating High-frequency Regulation
Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders and speaker at High-frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 New York City, claims that wrongdoing in the financial markets has existed long before the advent of high-frequency trading, and it will always be a … Continue reading
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