Nasdaq liked the idea of real-time market surveillance so much that it bought one of the companies that specialize in it.
Nasdaq OMX announced this week that it will buy Smarts Group, an Australia-based market surveillance business that helps exchanges monitor compliance with trading rules....
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Fat fingers (or weight-challenged digits - for the more politically correct :-) ) are trading errors that can have catastrophic consequences. And they've been happening a lot recently!!
Fat fingers (or weight-challenged digits to my politically correct friends) have had a good run lately. First we heard that Deutsche Bank had to close its quantitative trading desk in Japan after an automated trading system misread equities market data. The system generated a massive sell order that...
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