Computerized Trading and the Ponzi Stock Market
This past week there was a huge amount of volatility in the markets, and computerized trading represented a huge part of that volume. There are literally computers that buy and sell the same stock...
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At today's hearing, we will examine the frightening afternoon of May 6th [2010], one of the most volatile trading days in history. Within minutes, stock market indices dropped precipitously, erasing...
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In many of the world’s markets, nearly all stock trading is now conducted by computers talking to other computers at high speeds. As the machines have taken over, trading has been migrating from...
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High-frequency traders are the reason for the massive infrastructure, Mr. McPartland says. Everyone realizes you have to attract the high-speed traders.As everyone goes warp speed, a number of...
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Algorithmic trading and Direct Market Access (DMA) are important tools helping both buy and sell-side traders to achieve best execution.This book starts from the ground up to provide detailed...
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Hedge funds have over $1.917 trillion in misused investment capital. Wall Street investment firms are loaded with investment capital looking for ways to make outsized profits while paying as little in...
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This brings us to the equities markets, most notably the stock market. Over the last several years a constant media harangue has assured us that the soaring numbers of the stock market are the sole...
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After the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression almost took the global economy over a cliff, tough new regulations and stronger internal controls at the world's major banks were meant to...
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Wednesday morning's stock snafu had a familiar ring to it — mysterious volume in trades that simply could not have been made by a human comes surging out of nowhere, causing brief but acute market...
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A rapid trading computer glitch caused $440 million of trading losses in less than an hour at Knight Capital. Is computerized trading a danger to the markets? Should government step in and regulate...
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FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS: YOU'RE NOT ALONEPOSTED BY ANN BARNHARDT - JANUARY 25, AD 2013 7:47 PM MSTI get a steady stream of these types of emails, but I think the pace has picked up a bit lately. I...
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Mission Accomplished - With CNBC now lost for countdown-able targets (though 20,000 is so close), we leave it to none other than Jim Cramer, quoting Stanley Druckenmiller, to sum up where we stand (oh...
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In all bureaucracies instead of the best and the brightest rising to the top those who learn to pull the levers the best end up controlling the machine. Often the official leaders are merely...
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