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Ex-Goldman trader departs Getco

(Financial News - Tim Cave) A former Goldman Sachs derivatives trader has left Getco Europe, the London-based division of the pioneering US market-making and high frequency trading firm, as it...

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When Milliseconds Make Millions: Why Wall Street Programmers Earn the Big Bucks

(ADT - David Ramel) David Ramel follows up his "Highest Paid Programmers" article with a look inside the world of high-frequency trading, where coders earn top dollars and even nanoseconds count.read...

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Bloomberg enters HFT arms race

(Financial News - Tim Cave) Bloomberg is planning to expand its range of data services to attract more business from high-frequency trading firms, according to sources with knowledge of the...

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Esma flexes its muscles with HFT rules

(Financial News - Tim Cave) Practitioners of high-frequency trading have become accustomed to the glare of regulators, but the level of scrutiny the activity has received over recent months has been...

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Getco Europe profits continue to slide

(Financial News - Tim Cave) Profits in the European division of Getco, the US-based high-frequency trading firm, fell for a second successive year in a sign of the challenges facing the group in...

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Advantage Futures Launches New Microsite Dedicated to Algorithmic Trading

CHICAGO, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantage Futures launched www.AlgoAdvantage.com, a new microsite designed to educate traders about the benefits of automated trading. The dedicated microsite...

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Not so fast - The risks posed by high-frequency trading

(The Economist - Buttonwood) FASTER is not always better. Who would want a doctor’s appointment that lasted 30 seconds or a whisky that had been matured for a week? But when it comes to the...

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Mexico Derivatives Market Sees High-Frequency Currency Trading Soon

MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's derivatives market could see its first high-frequency trading of its dollar futures contract in coming months as the local market enters the second phase of its tie-up...

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NYSE Euronext opens up co-lo services

(Financial Times - Philip Stafford) NYSE Euronext has opened up its key European data centre near London to allow third-party co-location service providers to conduct trades without passing through the...

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NYSE buys Metabit in Asia tech push

(Financial Times - Telis Demos) NYSE Technologies, the trading infrastructure services arm of the exchange group, has acquired Japanese group Metabit as it seeks to establish a foothold to supply...

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Traders cautious on exchanges tie-up

(Financial Times - Jeremy Grant) Some of the largest electronic trading companies have given a qualified welcome to the proposed combination of Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext, warning that while it...

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Subpoenas Go Out to High-Speed Trade Firms

(Wall Street Journal) U.S. regulators, intensifying their probe of last year's "flash crash" and other market swings, have sent subpoenas to firms that do high-frequency trading, according to people...

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Blame High Frequency Trading? No.

(CNBC - Bob Pisani) More on high frequency trading (HFT). I called a fairly large HFT toward the close and asked how much money he had made today.read more...

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Computers Blamed (Again) for the Market's Woes

(The Atlantic - Alexis Madrigal) As the Dow has yo-yo'd through the past week, a familiar criticism has risen from the crowd. It's the computers fault!read more...

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Tick Rate Hits New Highs, Indicating HFT Activity

(Traders Magazine - James Armstrong) Bloomberg is reporting an unprecedented number of quotes in recent days, rising to new highs on Wednesday even as overall volume was down slightly, an indication of...

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Lord Myners calls for inquiry on 'black box' trading

(The Telegraph - James Quinn/Harry Wilson) - Lord Myners has called on the Government to launch a focused inquiry into so-called "black box" computerised trading in the wake of extreme volatility in...

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Black box trading is the real hazard to markets, says Lord Myners

(Guardian - Simon Bowers) Former City minister Lord Myners, an investment industry veteran, has redoubled his attack on high-frequency "black box" share trading, which he believes has exacerbated the...

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How Linux Mastered Wall Street

(PC World Business - Joab Jackson) When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux, at least according...

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FIA FIA PTG And FIA EPTA Provide Regulators With Views On the Impact Of...

(Mondo Visione) The FIA Principal Traders Group and the FIA European Principal Traders Association today released their joint response to a consultation report issued by the International Organization...

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Uptick rule replaces flash trading as market scapegoat

(moneycontrol.com) Bring back the uptick rule? It's the new bogeyman, but the odds of it coming back are not great, and the odds that it would destroy high frequency trading is not great either.read...

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