New High-Frequency Trading Lobbying Group for Europe
The Futures Industry Association has announced the creation of a new European lobbying group for high frequency traders. The FIA European Principal Traders Association will comprise 15 of the largest...
View ArticleNot Another Flash-Crash…Yet: Trader
As reported by MarketWatch, so far there is no sign of a “flash-crash” like the one that rattled the markets worldwide more than one year ago on May 6, 2010. At least that’s the view of Joe Saluzzi,...
View ArticleA Flash ‘Surge’ In the VIX? Not so Fast
As reported by ETF Trends’s Paul Weisbruch, the equity markets suffered further losses Monday after feeling under enormous selling pressure late last week, capitulating at one point during Friday’s...
View ArticleNew Revenues Will Help NYSE Navigate Choppy Trading Environment
As reported by Forbes’ Trefis Team, NYSE Euronext reported a 12% decline in revenues and a 16% decline in net income in Q2 compared to the same period last year. Lower trading volumes in derivatives as...
View ArticleRobin Hood Tax: Proposed European Financial Transaction Tax Aimed at...
As The Guardian’s Max Lawson’s asks, what connects hunger in Africa, people dying for want of medicines or health care and fast-paced global capitalism? A small tax on financial transactions. A new...
View ArticleAsia-Pacific Asset Managers Concerned About High-Frequency Trading
The impacts of high-frequency trading (HFT) on the equities market is a concern for more than half of traders at asset management firms in Australia and across Asia, according to a survey released by...
View ArticleHigh Frequency Traders Make The Markets Much More Liquid, Transparent, And Fair
Several years ago, when ‘high frequency’ trading first captured the imagination of the commentariat, I was on a radio show panel on which the health of the stock market was discussed. One participant,...
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