High Frequency Trading: Like It Or Not, It’s Here To Stay
A piece in the New York Times this weekend renewed discussion of the Quixotic war against High Frequency Trading (HFT). Two “old school” brokers, running a small New Jersey based brokerage, have become...
View ArticleAre The Lights Going Out In Barclays’ Investment Bank?
A few weeks ago, following awful trading results, much of Barclays’ FICC business was consigned to the outer darkness – placed in Barclays’ internal “bad bank” for eventual sale or wind-up. Barclays’...
View ArticleKatsuyama’s HFT war makes him a Washington outsider
Brad Katsuyama’s crusade against high-frequency traders on Wall Street isn’t winning him any friends in Washington. Katsuyama, CEO of stock trading upstart IEX and the hero of Michael Lewis’...
View ArticleBombay Stock Exchange targets HFTs with network revamp
The exchange decided to revamp its customer gateways and its core network with 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet software and hardware provided by specialist firm Solarflare. The BSE chose OpenOnload application...
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Report: CFTC Looking Into High-Frequency Trading
Add the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to the list of agencies investigating the controversial practice of high-frequency trading. The U.S. futures markets regulator is looking into whether...
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Citadel Fund Said to Quadruple With High-Frequency Trades
High-frequency trading has been good to billionaire Ken Griffin. His Citadel LLC returned more than 300 percent in a fund started as a high-frequency strategy in late 2007, according to two people...
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Citadel Fund Said to Quadruple With High-Frequency Trades
High-frequency trading has been good to billionaire Ken Griffin. His Citadel LLC returned more than 300 percent in a fund started as a high-frequency strategy in late 2007, according to two people...
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David Einhorn takes stake in HFT-antidote IEX
Count David Einhorn on team Michael Lewis. “Michael Lewis’s new book ‘Flash Boys,’ like all his books, is a fun read and is based on a true story. It brings attention to some areas of the market that...
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Fast money: the battle against the high frequency traders
Back in the 1990s, when doctors had all but given up on holding the American tobacco industry to account, the lawyer Michael Lewis found an ingenious way through their defences. If juries couldn’t see...
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SEC: 10 firms face high-frequency-trading probe
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been seeking information on 10 registered broker dealers as part of an ongoing investigation into high-frequency trading strategies, according to an...
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Michael Lewis: ‘I knew Flash Boys would be a bombshell’
In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker. Sitting in a tapas bar in Berkeley, California, he bears a passing resemblance to a...
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HFTs Have Devolved To Two-Bit Criminals Straight Out Of “Office Space”
Back in October 2011, Zero Hedge was first to point out something previously unknown: a small, then-unheard of firm, managed to upstage none other than Goldman Sachs when it comes to total weekly...
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Fast money: the battle against the high frequency traders
Back in the 1990s, when doctors had all but given up on holding the American tobacco industry to account, the lawyer Michael Lewis found an ingenious way through their defences. If juries couldn’t see...
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SEC: 10 firms face high-frequency-trading probe
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been seeking information on 10 registered broker dealers as part of an ongoing investigation into high-frequency trading strategies, according to an...
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Michael Lewis: ‘I knew Flash Boys would be a bombshell’
In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker. Sitting in a tapas bar in Berkeley, California, he bears a passing resemblance to a...
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HFTs Have Devolved To Two-Bit Criminals Straight Out Of “Office Space”
Back in October 2011, Zero Hedge was first to point out something previously unknown: a small, then-unheard of firm, managed to upstage none other than Goldman Sachs when it comes to total weekly...
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