I began to fear that I was spending too much of my life's stress budget on something that quite honestly, was helping to wreak tremendous economic havoc. Ultimately I decided to walk away from an extremely lucrative profession.
HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.24.2012
As shareholders continue to pick through the rubble of the troubled Facebook IPO, questions still linger about the role -- if any -- high-frequency tr...
John Bates | Posted 05.24.2012
While it is true that HFTs have a vested interest in keeping market abuse to a minimum, it is not yet clear that their liquidity has been healthy enough to withstand the pressure of incoming regulations.
Ted Kaufman | Posted 05.20.2012
What is so abundantly clear is that the lack of transparency in derivatives trading, and the sheer complexity that is a by-product of that lack of transparency, really can make them "financial weapons of mass destruction."
Gino Vicci | Posted 05.18.2012
Amid pressure from the nation's largest grain association and "significant feedback," the CME Group Inc. backed off a proposed plan to extend trading hours in grain futures and options, but only by one hour.
Gino Vicci | Posted 05.09.2012
On May 6, 2010, cascading prices triggered computer sell orders from high-frequency traders that sent securities prices plunging. Still, regulators admit they don't fully understand how best to regulate high-frequency trading.
Sarah Anderson | Posted 05.04.2012
Who are "high-frequency traders"? And what sort of games are they playing with our economic future? Here are 10 things you should know.
Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.30.2012
Serious people are seriously contemplate giving Wall Street traders particle accelerators expressly for the purpose of high-speed trading.
Gino Vicci | Posted 04.20.2012
The high-speed trades driven by computers are in the cross-hairs of regulators in Washington. In spite of the controversy, some in the industry say high-frequency trading should be allowed to run its course.
Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012
U.S. regulators' $14 million settlement with high-frequency trading firm Optiver over oil price manipulation in 2007 is a "milestone" victory in their...
Reuters | Posted 04.21.2012
* Dutch firm accused of manipulating oil prices * CFTC case one of largest involving oil price manipulation * No admissi...
Irene Aldridge | Posted 04.18.2012
Recent arguments accuse high-frequency traders (HFTs) of a specific market distortion scheme. The HFTs, the argument goes, use their soon-to-be-cancelled limit orders to mislead large investors about the shape of the supply and demand curve.
HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.19.2012
Mark Gorton is sitting in the Zen garden on the roof of his office in downtown Manhattan, squinting into the sunlight and telling me he's not evil. ...
Ted Kaufman | Posted 04.16.2012
We must insist on more transparency and a return to markets that are fair to all investors. The tremors keep happening. We can't afford to wait until after the next catastrophic eruption.
HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.16.2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission does not currently have the ability to fully monitor what, by most accounts, makes up a majority of the stock t...
HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 03.27.2012
Don't call it a flash crash. Last Friday, when BATS, one of the country's leading venues for the controversial practice known as high frequency tr...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.26.2012
Is the SEC looking into traditional malfeasance -- the usual seamy kickbacks or bribes -- or the more esoteric: faster portals into exchange servers for certain select customers? This range of "advantages" may be built into the very concept of HFT. Will the SEC put HFT itself on trial?
The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.23.2012
A bad day for leading high frequency trading exchange BATS just got much worse -- and high-speed trading may have been the culprit. The third-bigge...
The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 03.23.2012
Call it a very bad day for flash traders. On the very day that BATS, short for Better Alternative Trading System, one of the larger high-frequency ...
Reuters | Posted 05.22.2012
March 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. securities watchdog is looking at whether some high-frequency trading firms have used their close links to computerise...
John Bates | Posted 05.21.2012
The detection of abusive patterns must happen in real-time, before any suspicious behavior has a chance to move the market. Sensing and responding to market patterns before aberrations or errors have a chance to move prices is the right thing to do -- in all asset classes.
Tony Greenberg | Posted 05.02.2012
In the low-latency world of high-frequency trading, some will lose, no matter how smart their systems and people. Can you catch up? Or should we slow them down?
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.29.2012
Where is John Connor when you need him? We might need some help handling some robots. At about 10 a.m. on the East Coast, just after the Federal Re...
John Bates | Posted 04.28.2012
The Borsa's solution, especially if it is embraced by other trading destinations, may spawn a new generation of intelligent "sensing" algos.
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.23.2012
There are 17 different things a guy can do when he lies to give him away, but there are only seven and a half things you need to know today. Here they...
Dave Lauer | Posted 06.01.2012