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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
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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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Despite Risks, Brazil Courts the Millisecond Investor
Dan Horch reports in NY Times that, at a time when the mere phrase “high-frequency trading” makes some investors queasy, Brazil’s stock exchange is putting out the digital welcome mat. In recent years, the BM&F Bovespa stock exchange in São … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Equity Markets, High Frequency Trading, World Exchanges
Tagged Aite Group, Andy Nybo, BM&F, Bovespa, Brazil, Celent, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chile, Chris Concannon, Cicero Vieira, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, Danielle Tierney, Dark Pools, Demos, Direct Edge, flash crash, H.F.T., high-frequency trading, Mexico, Puma, Sao Paulo, Tabb Group, Virtu Financial, Wallace C. Turbeville
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