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Jeremy Grant, editor of FT Trading Room at the Financial Times, recently asked for explanations "on a postcard" about why speed is a force for good in financial markets, or put another way, to explain what the benefits are of...
(This piece originally appeared on TabbForum - linked here)
The furore over high frequency trading and rogue algorithms is turning these important trading tools into fodder for the mainstream media. As part of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Technology...
After encountering the latest Wall Street film ‘Money Never Sleeps’ earlier this week, it’s apparent that it's not just the then-brick-sized mobile phones that have changed since the 1987 installment.
The movie opens with Gordon Gekko, the man who so famously stated, “greed is good” in...
Now that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act is signed into law, there lies a mountain of work ahead for regulators. Making sense of the 2,000+ page document and turning it into viable recommendations and regulations will be an arduous...
The chaos theory says that small differences in initial conditions can yield widely diverging outcomes. Thus it was that on May 6th when a mutual fund in Kansas entered a rather large ($4.1bn) sell order in E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts on the CME, the reverberations were felt throughout the...
The long anticipated joint SEC and CTFC report on the 6 May 2010 flash-crash came out last Friday.
After reading much of the report and commentary around it, I'm feeling rather...
"For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and babble
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn, and caldron bubble."
William Shakespeare.
There is no shortage of news about the evils of high frequency...
Scooby Doo and the gang have been investigating the spooky mystery of the "phantom orders" on CME and they found out that the culprit was... wait...
Strange things are happening in the markets! As you know if you’ve been following this blog, quite a few scares, horrors and apparitions have been sighted in equities, futures, FX and oil markets over the last few months. But fortunately the Mystery Machine has rolled into town and Scooby, Shaggy and...
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