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ASX chief Elmer Funke Kupper calls for curbs on high-speed trading
REGULATORS should strive to make it unprofitable for high-frequency traders to front-run markets, says Australian Securities Exchange chief executive Elmer Funke Kupper. His approach contrasts with the...
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What High Frequency Trading Really Means for Retail Investors
The computer systems at Knight Capital (NYS: KCG) had apparently taken on a mind of their own, erratically trading massive volumes of 140 different stocks. For nearly 45 minutes, Knight’s systems...
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Cisco Flexes Custom Silicon Muscle for High-Frequency Trading Crowd
Cisco’s Nexus 3000 line has been aimed at high-performance applications, but most of the attention in that market has gone to startup competitor Arista, which has had its 7100SX family on the market...
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Chicago Fed Study Blasts the Lid Off of High Frequency Trading
We hear all sorts of reasons the little guy won’t buy stocks these days but the below graph, courtesy of a Chicago Fed study, might explain a lot of it. The above chart shows an astounding percentage...
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SEC No Match For High-Tech Traders
(By Stephen Foley and Arash Massoudi in New York) The Securities and Exchange Commission is hopelessly outgunned in resources and technical savvy by the computerised traders it regulates, a leading US...
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Personal Finance: High-frequency trading keeps some people anxious
WASHINGTON — Some people have lost their taste for the stock market, with many concluding it’s more dangerous than they can tolerate for their kids’ college money or retirement savings. And they have...
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Speed Trading Who’s Who at High Frequency Trading Debate Tomorrow October 9...
A who’s who in the industry is gathering tomorrow Tuesday at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2012 Chicago, How Knight Capital’s ‘Knightmare on Wall Street’ Could Transform the Regulatory Landscape...
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Deciphering Chaos with Commissioner Bart Chilton at High-Frequency Trading...
A who’s who in the industry gathered on Tuesday, October 9, at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2012 Chicago, How Knight Capital’s ‘Knightmare on Wall Street’ Could Transform the Regulatory...
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HFT Analysis: High Speed Trading a Stiff Challenge for SEC and CFTC Regulators
Christine Stebbins from Reuters reports that financial trading in world markets has grown so lightning-fast that effective regulation is growing tougher by the second, increasing the threat of crashes...
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Financial Markets Are At Risk Of a ‘Big Data’ Crash
Maureen O’Hara from FT reports that regulators and investors are struggling to meet the challenges posed by high-frequency trading. This ultra-fast, computerised segment of finance now accounts for...
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Alexander Fleiss, Presenter at HFT Conference in New York, Advocating Chile’s...
Alexander Fleiss, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Rebellion Research, and speaker at High-frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 New York City, says that Chile has shown tremendous progress...
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While Infinium Starts Talks on Tie-up, Knight Founders Join Knightmare’s Book...
While Infinium Capital Management is in talks to acquire a strategic partner, as reported by Reuters, founders of Knight Capital will be in attendance today at the book launch party for Knightmare on...
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FORBES: Speed-Traders-R-Us? Algorithmic Trading Trickles Down To Individual...
According to Forbes’ Jeremy Bogaisky, Christopher Ivey is working on what he thinks is the next step in the evolution of trading. six flights up in a dim, grungy office building in Manhattan’s Union...
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REUETRS: SEC Talks on Nasdaq Failure to Focus on Backing up System
According to Reuters’ Herbert Lash and John McCrank, federal regulators and stock exchange executives are likely to focus on the stock quotes processor behind Nasdaq’s trading halt last month, but a...
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Unacceptable Options OPRA Trading Halt due to Software Upgrade at NYSE
The trading halt across U.S. options markets on Monday was due to a bug in new software being rolled out, a unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX.N), which operates the system, said on Tuesday, which was reported...
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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...
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Michael Lewis is wrong, says Knightmare on Wall Street’s Edgar Perez: Markets...
According to Edgar Perez, author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets, stock markets are not any more ‘rigged’ than at the...
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