By David Sheppard and Jonathan Stempel
U.S. regulators claimed their first victory in a four-year old effort to
crack down on oil market manipulation on Thursday, announcing a $14 million
settlement...
By David Sheppard
U.S. President Barack Obama's bid to dampen the influence of oil
speculators by having regulators set trading margins could backfire,
potentially making prices even more volatile and leaving...
By D.M. Levine
Mark Gorton is sitting in the Zen garden on the roof of his office in
downtown Manhattan, squinting into the sunlight and telling me he's not
evil.
"If you...
By Philip Stafford in London and Telis Demos in New York
High-speed trading is set to expand into the European government bond
trading market after MTS, the region's dominant trading venue...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) -...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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!...
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...
THE CFTC HIGH FREQUENCY POLICE AND THE GO TO GUYS FOR ANSWERS
· Irene Aldridge of ABLE Alpha Trading, Ltd., HFT She wrote a book on it. Easy READ http://www.ablealpha.com/aa/
· Peter Buckley of Newedge USA, He is running this show: Newedge Plans High Frequency-Powered Move Into Securities Clearing
· Sean Castette of GETCO, ENOUGH SAID
· Colin Clark of NYSE Euronext, Colin Clark is Senior Vice President of the Strategic Analysis & Market Data group in the U.S. Cash Markets division at NYSE Euronext.
· Christopher Concannon of Virtu Financial, LLC Virtu Financial LLC is an automated market making firm that employs advanced proprietary technologies to trade on electronically accessib
· Edward Dasso of the National Futures Association Dasso previously served as the Manager of Market Regulation for the InterContinental Exchange. He also previously spent several years at NFA as the Managing Director of Trade Practice and Market Surveillance.
· Keith Fishe of TradeForecaster Global Markets Former DRW...NOW WORKS WITH DAVID WESTCOTT http://www.tradeforecaster.com/bios_fishe.html
· Joel Hasbrouck of the New York University Stern School of Business, ACADEMIC...LOTS OF WHITE PAPERS ON HFT
· Robert Hegarty of Thomson Reuters Rob Hegarty is Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure for Thomson Reuters. He focuses on the increasingly changing regulatory environment th
· Terrence Hendershott of University of California Berkeley Academic Lots of white papers top.
· Chris Isaacson of BATS Global Markets, Chris Isaacson is a founding employee and was promoted to chief operating officer at BATS Global Markets
· Paul Kepes of Chicago Trading Company, Mr. Kepes is a senior partner and managing director of Chicago Trading Company (CTC). Founded in 1995, CTC is a leading proprietary derivatives trading firm active in various options
· Jordan Lea of the American Cotton Shippers Association DOESNT SEEM TO LIKE IT
· Chris Lorenzen of Eagle Seven Holdings LIKES TO BE UNDER RADAR...with good reason....
· Michael Mendelson of AQR Capital Management, Prior to joining AQR, Michael worked at Goldman Sachs where he was Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Trading.
· Jim Northey of FIX Protocol Ltd., FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) is the global, non-profit organisation at the heart of the electronic trading community
· Dean Payton of CME Group, Someone that needs to come out of many closets
· Peter Reiss of DE Shaw & Company,
· Joseph Saluzzi of Themis Trading, LLC http://blog.themistrading.com/ Our only HOPE
· Tim Sargent of Markit, HFT FIRM
· Larry Tabb of Tabb Group, Larry Tabb is the founder and CEO of TABB Group, the financial markets' research and strategic advisory firm f
· Jitesh Thakkar of Edge Financial Technologies, FOUNDER And Trading Software Architect, Edge Financial Technologies
· Mark Wassersug of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/us-ice-highfrequency-idUSTRE81S1LZ20120229