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- Position on Revised Proposals for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)
- From Internet | @05-25-12
- 1. FIA EPTA believes in a comprehensive regulatory framework and as such supports Article
2(1)(d), which would require authorisation of all market participants with memberships to
regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities.
2. FIA EPTA members purely trade their own capital and are reliant on their own risk controls
to preserve this capital. FIA ...
- High-Frequency Trading
- BY Peter Gomber | @05-25-12
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High-frequency trading (HFT) has recently drawn massive public attention fuelled by the
U.S. May 6, 2010 flash crash and the tremendous increases in trading volumes of HFT
strategies. Indisputably, HFT is an important factor in markets that are driven by
sophisticated technology on all layers of the trading value chain. However, ...
- THE RISE OF COMPUTERIZED HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING: USE AND CONTROVERSY
- By MICHAEL J. MCGOWAN | @05-25-12
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Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic shift in how
securities are traded in the capital markets. Utilizing
supercomputers and complex algorithms that pick up on breaking
news, company/stock/economic information and price and volume
movements, many institutions now make trades in a matter of
microseconds, through a practice known as ...
- High-Speed Trading: Be Careful What You Wish For
- By Ben Levisohn | @05-25-12
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My colleague Kirsten Grind had a story in Thrusday's paper about how a small group of "market wonks" is planning a new trading venue designed solely for mutual-fund managers.
The article, "Mutual Funds Promised Haven from Speedsters," says the trading platform will seek:
to protect fund managers by ...
- Nasdaq, Direct Edge Move to Tame Quote Traffic
- BY MATT JARZEMSKY | @05-25-12
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Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and Direct Edge Holdings LLC will introduce financial penalties in coming weeks on traders who send to the exchanges heavy loads of quotes that don't lead to trades.
The number of so-called trade messages, which are "bid" or "sell" offers sent to the exchange, has ...
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