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

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

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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Knight Capital Mess Aside, High Frequency Trading Is Here To Stay

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

“The apparent trading error by Knight Capital Group…reflects the type of event that can raise concerns for investors about our nation’s equity markets,” said SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro in a statement on Friday. And it is, according to Forbes’s Chris Barth … Continue reading →

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Top Traders Lured to Growing Commodities Merchants

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

Reuters – June 22, 2012 LONDON – The landscape is changing for commodities merchants as global economic strength swings east, encouraging them to diversify into new products and increase scale while they also can skim the best traders off struggling … Continue reading →

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Wash Trading by High-Frequency Firms Said to Face U.S. Scrutiny

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

Bloomberg News – By Joshua Gallu and Silla Brush – June 22, 2012 High-frequency trading firms are drawing scrutiny from U.S. regulators seeking evidence that they may be distorting market prices by conducting transactions with themselves, said two people with … Continue reading →

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BlueMountain Said to Help Unwind JPMorgan’s Whale Trades

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Bloomberg News – By Mary Childs, Stephanie Ruhle and Shannon D. Harrington – June 21, 2012 A hedge fund run by a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) executive who helped create the credit- derivatives market is aiding the lender … Continue reading →

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BlackRock Discloses Doll’s Models Not All His Own

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Reuters – By Jessica Toonkel – June 21, 2012 (Reuters) – In January, BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) made a significant, but easy-to-miss change in the fund literature for three of its mutual funds. In previous prospectuses, the New York-based firm said … Continue reading →

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CFTC Panel Urges Broad Definition of High-Frequency Trading

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Bloomberg News – By Silla Brush – June 21, 2012 U.S. financial regulators should adopt a broad definition of high-frequency trading to prevent “regulatory arbitrage,” according to an advisory committee to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “It is important to … Continue reading →

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SAC’s Cohen Said to Be Deposed in SEC Trading Probe

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Bloomberg News – By Joshua Gallu and Saijel Kishan – June 21, 2012 Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire founder of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP, is facing renewed scrutiny from U.S. regulators over whether he illegally bought and sold … Continue reading →

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A Bump At Speed Trading Hearing

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

The Wall Street Journal – By Scott Patterson, Jacob Bunge, and Jenny Strasberg –        June 20, 2012 Conflict erupted among some of Wall Street’s heaviest hitters over a proposed definition of high-frequency trading, showing rifts that divide big investment firms … Continue reading →

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U.S. Stocks Trading Flat Ahead of Fed Press Conference

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

The Wall Street Journal – By Jonathan Cheng – June 20, 2012 U.S. stocks traded roughly flat ahead of the Federal Reserve’s press conference, giving a muted response to the central bank’s efforts to juice the economy by extending its … Continue reading →

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