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(2012, Apr)LEO MELAMED DEFENDS CME EURODOLLAR RULES
Leo Melamed, former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, said on Tuesday that large, privately negotiated trades that sparked a protest in CME Group's Eurodollar options are critical to the...

(2012, Apr)GOVERNMENT TRIES TO CURB HFT BY RESTRICTING COMPUTERS THAT TRANSMIT INFORMATION
By Meera Louis Jobs Data Simultaneous Release Jeopardized Under Curbs The U.S. Department of Labor said it can't promise journalists they will be able to transmit market-sensitive economic releases at exactly the...

(2012, Apr)MARKET-ROILING TRADE LIKELY NOT 'FAT-FINGER' ERROR
By JACOB BUNGE A big asset manager pushed through a large sale of Treasury futures early Wednesday and followed it up with subsequent trades that roiled currency and metals markets, according...

(2012, Apr)UPDATE 1-CME STANDS GROUND AFTER EURODOLLAR OPTIONS PROTEST
By Tom Polansek * CME executives meet with Eurodollar options traders * Independent traders boycotted open outcry pit on Friday * No changes made to rules on "block trades" CHICAGO, April 16 (Reuters) -...

(2012, Apr)MORE TRADERS SOUND OFF ABOUT THE CME WALK OUT, AND THEY HAVE A BRUTAL MESSAGE FOR THE PROTESTERS
By Julia La Roche A bunch of CME Group independent floor traders, commonly referred to as "locals," made a splash Friday after staging a walkout boycotting pit-trading options of Eurodollar...

(2012, Apr) U.S. FINANCIAL MARKETS ARE IN REAL TROUBLE
By Ted Kaufman Just because a volcano is dormant doesn't mean it won't erupt again. Sit on top of it, and even minor tremors are a disturbing reminder that the potential...

(2012, Apr)CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE PLOTS MOVE TO SECAUCUS
By Ed Beeson SECAUCUS � Could it become the New Jersey Board Options Exchange? The largest and oldest venue for trading financial instruments known as options is moving the heart and soul...

(2012, Apr)TRADING SHOULDN'T BE INCENTIVIZED IN ONE SECURITY IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN IT IS FOR OTHER MARKETS-THEMIS
In October of 2011 the NYSE had submitted a rule change to the SEC which would (a) "codify certain trading floor functions that may be performed by DMM's", and (b)...

(2012, Apr)A WALL STREET FIT FOR C-3PO AND R2-D2
By JIM MCTAGUE Regulators still don't have a handle on the robotic trading that figured in the 2010 Flash Crash. CFTC points finger at SEC. Boy, did George Lucas get it wrong!...

(2012, Apr)SORTING OUT MYSTERY OF MISSING TRADERS
By DAVID ROEDER An old Steve Goodman folk song about the fast, bewildering pace of modern life had the line, "Everybody's waiting for something to happen. Tell me if it happens...

(2012, Apr)TRADERS WALK OUT OF CME EURODOLLAR PIT TO PROTEST TRADE
By Matthew Leising Local traders in the CME Group Inc. (CME)'s Eurodollar options pit walked off the job today to protest a block trade yesterday. "These guys that stand in there all...

(2012, Apr)TRADERS WALK OUT OF THE CME EN MASSE AFTER A CONTROVERSIAL TRADE
By Julia La Roche Here's something interesting that happened in options pits in Chicago today. Dow Jones is reporting that at the CME Group about 95% of the independent floor traders...

(2012, Apr)FORGET OCCUPY, EVEN THE TRADERS ARE PROTESTING NOW
By Paul Vigna Mom and Pop have developed a pretty deep mistrust of the market, and after seeing their nest eggs ripped apart twice in the space of ten years, who...

(2012, Apr)CME FLOOR TRADERS PROTEST BLOCK TRADES
By Hal Weitzman Independent futures traders at one of the CME Group's most high-profile trading pits have walked off the job in a highly unusual protest against"block trades", large, privately negotiated...

(2012, Apr)CME CO-LOCATION SERVICES TECH TALK & COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Join the CME Co-Location Services Team for an afternoon of technology discussions, hardware demos and interactive games from Microsoft, all while overlooking Chicago from the 99th Floor Skydeck of the...

ASIA NOT THE HFT HAVEN PEOPLE THINK
Jan 3 2012 Asia is no stranger to high-frequency trading but Steve Edge, principal of Asiaetrading.com, a market structures, news and commentary portal, says transaction costs are still too high to attract the kind of HFT activity levels that we've seen in the US and Europe. He outlines to FT Trading Room editor Jeremy Grant the state of HFT in Asia, what trades are undertaken and where. (4m 44sec)

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