Opinions
(Decimus Capital Markets, LLC, Haim Bodek)
This commentary originally was published on April 8, 2014. “Flash Boys” was supposed to be the “newsiest” Michael Lewis book yet, and I was eager to find out what the author teased out of his sources. What we got at best was a rehash of some of the basic market
Continue...(Modern Markets Initiative, Bill Harts)
Investors deserve simple, uncomplicated markets. Time spent learning about the intricacies of market structure is time that could be better spent searching for undervalued companies to invest in. Yet our market structure has become a hodgepodge of rules, guidelines and jargon symptomatic of mind-numbing complexity. Let’s examine two examples of
Continue...(George Washington University, Brian Mannix)
While other fields of law are trying to anticipate the future ramifications of the widespread use of drones, robots, and self-driving vehicles, financial markets have already confronted the fact that – for about five years now – automated trading programs have made the majority of all trades in equities and
Continue...(Wunsch Auction Associates LLC, Steve Wunsch)
Seventy-five million dollars? You’ve got to be kidding. That was my reaction reading the crawler on CNBC Wednesday morning. It said IEX had raised $75 million to pursue registered exchange status. What fools, I wondered, knew so little about the difference between IEX and all of the other registered stock
Continue...(12Sided Technology, Peter Nabicht)
One of the largest benefits electronic trading has brought to markets is transparency in pricing. Never before have so many firms been able to provide liquidity to investors in real time, thanks to high-frequency trading techniques. In order to provide this service, these firms must constantly update their prices to
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The Speed of Liquidity: How Low Latency Fuels Inefficient Markets
(TechniTrader, Martha Stokes CMT)
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The Fix Is In: Regulatory Blunders, HFT, Investor Confidence and the Death of Investment Banking
(Wunsch Auction Associates LLC, Steve Wunsch)
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HFT, Fair & Balanced: An Academic and Historic Perspective
(Hofstra University, Ahmet Karagozoglu)
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HFT: It’s Time to Lose Sight of the Forest and Focus on the Trees, Part 2: Market-Making vs. Manipulation
(TradeDynamiX, Cristian Zarcu)
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Flash … or Fiction?
(Financial Consultant, Ian Bandeen)
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High-Frequency Trading: The Co-Location Advantage
(Lord Abbett, Ted Oberhaus)
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Resolving the Order Type Controversy: A Logical Conclusion?
(Decimus Capital Markets, LLC, Haim Bodek,Decimus Capital Markets, LLC, Stanislav Dolgopolov)
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HFT: Innovation, or Rigging? The Jury’s Still Out
(Consob, Luca Filippa)
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ConvergEx U.S. Equity Market Structure Survey Reveals ‘Displeasure’
(Context Capital Partners, Eric Noll)
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Futures Regulators Focus on HFT, But Do They Get it?
(Formerly TABB Group, Matt Simon,TABB Group, Luther Zhao)
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CME’s Duffy Says Futures Markets Are Safe from HFT Evils
(TABB Group, Les Kovach)
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Game of Thumbs: Eliminating the Excesses of HFT Racing
(George Washington University, Brian Mannix)
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HFT Is Damaging the Reputation of the Markets
(ParFX, Trad-X, Daniel Marcus)
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Futures Regulators Not Likely to Slow HFT – for Now
(Formerly TABB Group, Matt Simon,Contributing TABB Analyst, Andrew Yemma)