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Knightmare on Wall Street’s Edgar Perez on ‘Knight Capital, Goldman Sachs and NASDAQ’s trading glitches, a Sad New Market Reality?’

Mr. Edgar Perez, Author,  The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street, will provide the keynote speech “Knight Capital, Goldman Sachs and NASDAQ’s trading glitches, a Sad New Market Reality?” at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 Chicago, “Strategic and Tactical … Continue reading

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Top 25+ Finance and Investing Leaders Joining World’s Most Influential HFT Conference in London

“Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges” is the theme of High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com) forum that will provide attendees in London (March 21) with the most up-to-date review of where this ever-changing industry … Continue reading

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Traders prepare for HFT shift into emerging markets

Better infrastructure and deeper liquidity is attracting high-frequency traders to exploit EM currencies, say traders and technology providers The effects of high-frequency trading (HFT) on developed foreign exchange markets have been well-documented in recent years, but signs of HFT are … Continue reading

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HFT Technologies LLC Opens New Consulting Company to Help IT Departments Prepare for Dodd-Frank

HFT Technologies LLC announced the launch of a new company, HFT Pros, to provide on-site consultingand staff supplementation services to financial firms throughout Chicago, New York City and other major financial centers. Demand for IT consultants with trading systems experience is expected … Continue reading

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B of E Studies HFT: Begins and Ends with Ambivalence

A recent working paper from the Bank of England reports on efforts to understand the rise of high-frequency trading and its impact on equity markets. I think it fair to say that the study fails to get any firm grasp of its … Continue reading

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SEC Enforcement Roundup

Lebanese, Druze Communities Targeted in High-Volume Trading Scheme A Sugar Land, Texas-based day trader was charged by the SEC for targeting, in particular, investors in the Houston-area Lebanese and Druze communities in a high-frequency trading program. Firas Hamdan was charged … Continue reading

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Houston Day Trader Charged by the SEC for Defrauding Lebanese and Druze Community Investors

Washington, D.C., — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a day trader in Sugar Land, Texas, with defrauding investors in his supposed high-frequency trading program and providing them falsified brokerage records that drastically overstated assets and hid his massive trading losses. … Continue reading

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Government Drops Insider Trading Probe Of Media Companies, Baffling Investors

According to the Huffington Post’s Eleazar David Melendez, The dismissal of an investigation into major media companies suspected of giving clients a sneak peek at crucial data drew great surprise on Wall Street, where traders make their living profiting from blips of information … Continue reading

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Sugar Land day trader accused of targeting his own community in investment scheme

According to Erin Mulvaney, A Sugar Land day trader was charged Tuesday with defrauding his Houston-area clients in a high-frequency investment scheme, officials said. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Firas Hamdan provided falsified brokerage records that drastically overstated assets and hid his … Continue reading

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Is High-Frequency Trading Detrimental to Markets?

HFT is implemented via computer algorithms that take market data (trades and orders) as input, process it based on statistical arbitrage algorithms, and issue trading orders as output. Statistical arbitrage is a process of discerning and exploiting statistical patterns in … Continue reading

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