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High Frequency Trading: Clear and Present Danger?
According to huffingtonpost: As we look back on 2013, it has certainly been a year of increasing scrutiny and criticism of capital markets trading participants. One particular area of focus is so-called “High Frequency Trading” (HFT), the practice of automated … Continue reading
Posted in Equity Markets, Fixed Income, High Frequency Trading, high-frequency journalism, Insider Trading
Tagged 2010 Flash Crash, algorithmic trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average, HFT, high-frequency trading, Knight Capital Group, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, United States
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Why Putting a Speed Limit on the Stock Market?
According to The New York News, when Brad Katsuyama was running the U.S. trading desk for the Royal Bank of Canada, his clients would send in orders every day, but every day, when Katsuyama went to buy or sell, something … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Instruments Directive, High Frequency Trading
Tagged BATS, Brad Katsuyama, buy and sell, Charles Jones, Columbia Business School, Direct Edge, Hedge Funds, HFT, high-frequency trading, IEX, long-term investor, Manoj Narang, Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, Royal Bank, Tradeworx, U.S. stock trade, Wall Street
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How does society benefit from the High-Frequency Trading?
According to U.S. News, three and a half years have passed since the afternoon when the stock markets went into a trillion-dollar free fall and just as suddenly reversed course, recovering 80 percent of that loss. It all happened in … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Instruments Directive, Flash Crash, High Frequency Trading
Tagged CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, concept release, Dodd-Frank, financial institution, flash crash, HFT, high-frequency trading, liquidity, stock market, Trader Bots, Warren Buffett
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Beware the Alpha Sharks! High Frequency Trading and Its Impact on Markets
Maureen O’Hara, professor of finance at Cornell University, and member of the Systemic Risk Councilhas a warning to traditional investment managers, i.e., low frequency traders (LFT): High frequency trading(HFT) is now the norm, and it is not going away. Continuing to … Continue reading
High-Frequency Trading Is Making a Joke of the Markets
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made!” –Groucho Marx I suspect the SEC, FINRA, and CFTC are big fans of Groucho Marx, or at least his observations on fair dealing. How else could they … Continue reading
Experts are divided on whether Twitter-controlled stocks will end us all
The real danger of the singularity isn’t that computers will conspire to overtake their masters, but that we’ll let them do it—and then be lost when they fail. This is already apparent in the number of major market crashes that have occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Dark Pools, Events, Finance, High Frequency Trading
Tagged algorithm, HFT, high frequency trade, Kevin Slavin, MIT Media Lab, Slavin, Twitter, White House, Wired
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Structural barrier to HFT participation in Asia OTC markets
Barriers include a lack of finalised rules and technology for scalable operations It is too early for high-frequency trading (HFT) firms to participate in the trading of cleared over-the-counter derivatives in Asia because of barriers such as cost and liquidity, … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Breaking News, Dark Pools, Events, Finance, High Frequency Trading
Tagged asia, brokerages, business, Day Trading, Electronic Trading, HFT, high-frequency trading, Investing
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Quantopian Wants To Turn Stock Trading Algorithmic
Financial theory argues that over the long-run, individuals can’t beat the market. But a Boston start-up, Quantopian – its service lets people build, test, and execute trading algorithms — has developed software for those who want to try. In a … Continue reading
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