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(2012, May)POSITION ON REVISED PROPOSALS FOR MARKETS IN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS DIRECTIVE (MIFID II)
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....

(2012, May)HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING
BY Peter Gomber 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...

(2012, May)THE RISE OF COMPUTERIZED HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING: USE AND CONTROVERSY
By MICHAEL J. MCGOWAN 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,...

(2012, May)HIGH-SPEED TRADING: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
By Ben Levisohn 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...

(2012, May)NASDAQ, DIRECT EDGE MOVE TO TAME QUOTE TRAFFIC
BY MATT JARZEMSKY 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...

(2012, May)MORE FALLOUT FROM THE FACEBOOK FIASCO
BY Bob Pisani More fallout from the Facebook debacle: Nasdaq and Direct Edge are introducing fees on high-frequency traderswho send large numbers of cancelled trades to their exchanges....

(2012, May)FORGET FACEBOOK: WHY REGULAR JOES CAN'T INVEST IN THE DECADE'S HOTTEST IPO � AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T TRY
By Nancy Miller Even after some disappointing news came to light in the company's latest public filing earlier this week, investors are jostling to get shares in Facebook's epic debut...

(2012, May)AS CME EXTENDS GRAIN TRADE, TIME IS MONEY FOR US FARMERS
* Longer hours in cash market after futures trade extended * Two closes to grains trade cause confusion for bids By Michael Hirtzer and...

(2012, May)LAWMAKERS PREPARE TO EXAMINE US EXCHANGES
BY Dow Jones
U.S. lawmakers plan to hold a hearing next month on how the transformation of domestic capital markets by technology is affecting average investors, with the fumbled flotation of...

(2012, May)LETTER FROM EAGLE TO CME GROUP
Ron Manaster, Chairman of Eagle Market Makers wrote the following letter. It was delivered by electronic mail to the chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and all Members of...

(2012, May)SO, YOU THINK YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH FACEBOOK�S IPO ON FRIDAY?
We received many calls on Friday looking for our take on how NASDAQ handled the Facebook IPO. We answered those calls fairly un-sensationally, and even congratulated NASDAQ for not BATS-ing....

(2012, May)RISK AND THE CITY
By John Gapper How London bankers learned to gamble. Not so many decades ago, the City-London's financial district-was deadly dull compared with Wall Street, with its Milkens and black swans. It's been...

(2012, May)WHY THE INTERNET MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP GIANT WALL STREET LOSSES
By Bill Davidow In 1984, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow published his classic book, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. The odd term, "normal accident," Perrow wrote, is meant to signal that,...

(2012, May)CME OIL TRADING HALTED DUE TO TECHNICAL GLITCH
By DAN STRUMPF and JERRY A. DICOLO A technical glitch shut down CME Group Inc.'s electronic oil-trading platform for more than an hour Monday, throwing the market into disarray and sending...

(2012, May)CME GROUP'S BIGGEST VICTIM: WHAT THE MERC'S TAX BREAKS ARE DOING TO THE STATE BUDGET, AND WHY IT MATTERS
BY Elizabeth Parisian We're nearly four years into the Great Recession and the suffering it's caused. And by now we are all familiar with its hardest-hit victims -- the hundreds of...

HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
High-Frequency Trading at the Speed of Light
High-frequency traders are playing the system profiting from the 11 millisecond time difference between Chicago and New York, with CNBC's Eamon Javers. Jon Najarian, TradeMonster.com co-founder, weighs in.

High-Frequency Trading at the Speed of Light

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