As traders look for the fastest way to trade, one connectivity provider may have an answer: Sending data and trade orders via microwaves. So, what happens when it rains?
With profits down due to lower volumes and declining volatility in U.S. stocks, high-frequency traders face growing pressure to find new markets and innovate when speed is not enough.
Due to the pendulum shift to almost full automation and the massive fragmentation of the stock market over the past decade, our equity market currently lacks a self-policing mechanism.
As brokers debate the economics of execution management systems, Barclays and Citi have quit the EMS game. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs goes broker-neutral and Morgan Stanley decideds to fly solo.
After Goldman Sachs discovered that Bloomberg journos were keeping track of their viewing habits over their Bloomberg terminals, traders have some decisions to make about the company that provides their market data, trading tools, IM and more.
Professor Bernard Donefer of Baruch College and Sal Arnuk, Partner at Themis Trading went head-to-head on regulation, technology and politics surrounding the controversial practice of HFT.
Advanced Trading takes you on an exclusive tour of Abel Noser’s New York trading floor, where the agency broker known for transaction cost analysis, is customizing algorithms for the buy side, while growing its fixed income trading and transitions business.
The SEC Ups its Game with High Frequency Trading ToolsJuly 23, 2012The top regulator contracted with Tradeworx, a Redbank, NJ-based high frequency trading firm and tech vendor, to supply it with a market data and research platform for policing the equities and options markets in real time.
A High-Frequency Tax: Paving the Way for a Fair Market, or a Roadblock to Efficiency?July 26, 2011As lawmakers and federal officials ponder fees for high-frequency traders in order to cover the steep cost of monitoring them, industry experts warn that an added tax could stifle the very segment that accounts for most of the nation’s equity volume.
HFTs Fear SEC's 'Naked' Access Ban May Squeeze ProfitsNovember 11, 2010Although the move by U.S. regulators to ban "naked" access to public markets has been lauded as a necessary risk curb, a portion of the high-frequency trading community is awash in concern the new rules will damage time-sensitive strategies.
SEC Circuit Breaker May Not Have Stopped May 6 CrashJuly 01, 2010Shares of Citigroup Inc. triggered alarm across Wall Street last week when an erroneous trade sent the banking giant’s stock down 17 percent, activating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's two-week old circuit breaker.
Tabb: HFT, Fat Fingers and Market InsanityMay 07, 2010May 6, 2010 saw a complete meltdown of liquidity in a five-minute period of time and whether it was caused by high frequency trading or the lack thereof or it was an algos-gone-wild moment or was caused by a trader fat-fingering an order, we need to get to
