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High-Frequency Trading Has Made Markets More Efficient — Larry Tabb
Scott Patterson of The Wall Street Journal writes that few developments in the financial markets in recent years have inspired as much debate—oftentimes rancorous—as the rise of high-frequency trading,...
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Major Exchanges Win Back Market Share
Today in Financial News, Tim Cave reports that some of Europe’s major stock markets including the London Stock Exchange and NYSE Euronext enjoyed an uptick in their share of equities trading during the...
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NYSE Euronext to Launch Retail Liquidity Program
Based on NYSE Euronext press release yesterday, NYSE Euronext (NYX) has received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish a first-of-its-kind Retail Liquidity...
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NYSE Goes Dark
As Melanie Rodier from WSJ has reported, The New York Stock Exchange now has its very own dark pool, after the SEC on Thursday approved an NYSE pilot initiative to offer retail investors a separate...
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Edgar Perez, The Speed Traders, on The Perennial Profit Challenge: 2013...
Financial exchanges play a vital role in economic development as one of the primary tools for the allocation of capital in both developed economies and emerging ones. The indices created using the...
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Knowledge@Wharton on High-speed Trading: Is It Time to Apply the Brakes?
How fast is high-frequency stock trading? In the time it takes to read this sentence, tens of thousands of high-speed, computer-automated transactions can occur. Winning traders edge out rivals by...
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SEC’s Hired Gun on High-Frequency Trading Gets Permanent Role
According to Bloomberg’s Dave Michaels, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has promoted its computer-trading specialist, boosting his office’s effort to scrutinize rapid-fire trading’s impact...
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U.S. Regulators Investigating if High-frequency Traders are Distorting Stock...
According to The Wall Street Journal’s Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg and Jamila Trindle, U.S. regulators are investigating whether high-frequency traders are routinely distorting stock and futures...
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MarketWatch: Exchanges Have ‘Homework’ after SEC Meeting on Tech Glitches
According to The Tell’s Sital Patel, the Securities and Exchange Commission is asking stock exchanges to come up with a series of concrete measures to ensure that market systems are of the highest...
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Unacceptable Options OPRA Trading Halt due to Software Upgrade at NYSE
The trading halt across U.S. options markets on Monday was due to a bug in new software being rolled out, a unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX.N), which operates the system, said on Tuesday, which was reported...
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