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(2012, Jun)CFTC AIMS TO DEFINE HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING SO IT MIGHT BE REGULATED
By Scott Patterson and Jenny Strasburg U.S. regulators are about to take a big step toward reining in high-frequency trading: defining what it is. On Wednesday, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission subcommittee...

(2012, Jun)TRADERS SUE CME GROUP OVER NEW SETTLEMENT RULES
By Jessica Dye (Reuters) - CME Group Inc (CME.O) was sued on Friday by brokers and traders in a last-minute effort to halt new procedures to settle end-of-day prices for agricultural...

(2012, Jun)UPDATE 1-TRADERS SUE CME GROUP OVER NEW SETTLEMENT RULES
By Jessica Dye (Reuters) - CME Group Inc was sued on Friday by brokers and traders in a last-minute effort to halt new procedures to settle end-of-day prices for agricultural futures...

(2012, Jun)USDA COMMENT PERIOD INPUT PROCEDURES
For those who would like to submit their opinion to the USDA on the release time of the WASDE report, I have pasted the text and attached the original PDF...

(2012, Jun)WHAT PRICE LIQUIDITY? PASSIVE VERSUS AGGRESSIVE MARKET USERS
In the past ten years the futures industry has initiated rule changes, algorithm changes and most recently hours changes, in a self-destructive trend favoring aggressor market takers over passive market...

(2012, Jun)ANNE HATHAWAY'S NAME SETS THE MARKET BUZZING
Now we normally think of Hollywood movies, and those who act in them, as providing purely entertainment. But Anne Hathaway is different. Whenever she hits the headlines, she also nudges...

(2012, Jun)CFTC NEARS COMMENT PERIOD ON HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING
* CFTC commissioner hosts meeting of traders in Chicago * Chilton favors registering high-frequency traders * Public comment period set to start soon By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, June 11 (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures...

(2012, Jun)CONFRONTING HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING: DAVID VS. GOLIATH'S EVIL TWIN
BY Dave Lauer In my first blog post, I discussed the skewed incentives, unfair playing field, and dangerous consequences of high-frequency trading (HFT). Is it any wonder that you could apply...

(2012, Jun)SENATOR URGES OBAMA TO REPLACE COMMODITIES CHIEF
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senator called on President Barack Obama on Monday to replace the chairman of the chief derivatives regulatory agency with an official who will...

(2012, Jun)IT AIN'T ROCKET SURGERY: THE SKEWED INCENTIVES AND DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING
BY Dave Lauer During my appearance on NPR's Marketplace last week, I discussed why I left the high-frequency trading (HFT) business. When I learned that I was about to become a...

(2012, Jun)NEWSOM ON THE MARKET PARADIGM SHIFT?
Darin Newsom DTN Senior Analyst It was late in the fall, 2003, and I was having lunch with DTN's Urban Lehner for the first time at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in...

(2012, Jun)DTN RETAIL FERTILIZER TRENDS
BY Russ Quinn OMAHA (DTN) -- Now the spring rush is over, fertilizer prices are settling into a holding pattern, according to retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first...

(2012, Jun)CITADEL ACCUSES JUMP TRADING OF STEALING SECRETS
June 4 (Reuters) - Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, has accused a rival Chicago high-frequency trading firm of stealing its trading programs. It said in a court...

(2012, Jun)TRADE PARTICIPANTS SEEK TO RESTORE MISSION
Frustration over changes at the CME Group leads to an assessment of the futures market.

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Published: May 30, 2012
Traders and farmers smarting from the MF...

(2012, Jun)21 HOUR TRADING-WHAT IT MEANS TO PRODUCERS
BY Michael Donlon So much for a good nights sleep. The CME Group has decided to match its competition and go with a longer trading day. Soybeans, corn, rice and wheat...

CME GROUP SUED BY TRADERS OVER SETTLEMENT RULES--REPORT
A group of two dozen brokers and traders filed suit in Cook County, Ill. Friday in an attempt to stop CME Group. (CME) from instituting new rules in its commodity exchanges that would reduce the role of pit traders in determining settlement prices, Reuters reported Friday.
The suit is a last stand by the pit traders against the new rules, which are due to take effect Monday. In May, CME and subsidiary CBOT said they would change the price-settlement system to an algorithm that considers both floor trading and electronic trading, Reuters reported.

Complete report: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/23/us-cme-lawsuit-traders-idUSBRE85M01020120623?type=companyNews