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Take The Nanex Challenge, Win $10,000 Of Fiat Currency
In an effort to put more heat on the SEC and the pro-HFT community which hails this form of trading as an angel worthy of our worship, Nanex is offering...
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Market Performance During POTUS and Veep Debates
As we wind closer to the final debate for POTUS, John Lohman comes out with a timely piece of information. The data is from the first two 2012 POTUS debates...
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HFT Meets Its Match As A Bum Rush Of Accurate Information Is Flooding The Public Debate
There has been a bum rush since the WSJ article on order queues, trading matching engines, data feeds, and what should be characterized as a blatant slanting of the schematics...
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Latour Still Second On NYSE’s Programmed Trading Sheet, Overall Activity at 32.2%
On August 17th we reported that Latour had slipped to second on the list of top dogs who operate programmed trading styles on the NYSE, you know, the exchange the...
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ATTENTION SEC: Four Flash Smashes At 13:46:02 On September 18th, 2012
Starting at 15:46 four stocks took bizarre price movements. What we saw were ample quotes sent and a correlation in movement that was surreal. The Chicago Fed recently released information...
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Floating Path Responds To Irene Aldridge
First and to the point, from Irene: On the other extreme are employers in the financial services industry. Just open the “Jobs” page in “Money and Investment” section in The...
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Florida Ice and Farm Co. Rumored To Buy North American Breweries From KPS Capital Partners
A few weeks back Reuters released a report that KPS Capital Partners, LP had to sell its holding in North American Breweries (valued around $400 million and American’s largest owned brewer), which...
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JOBS Act Infographic
StartupReport and EarnMBA have teamed up to bring us their newest infographic on the topic of The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act passed with support from both parties and signed...
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Political Spin In The Harvard Cheating Scandal
Harvard students are fighting back against their school’s accusations of cheating on a take home exam for a course titled none other than, Introduction To Congress. According to Bloomberg News...
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Direct Edge CEO on Knight Trading
Bill O’Brien is the CEO of Direct Edge, an electronic exchange partially owned by Knight Capital. In an interview with CNBC today O’Brien spun off what sounded like structured, legal...
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Follow Issac’s Path Through The Gulf of Mexico
NOAA has done a fantastic job of grouping together information relating to oceanic weather. The organization utilizes an updating server loaded with buoys located worldwide that stream a plethora of...
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Latour Trading Slips To Second In Principal Strategies
Latour Trading, the unknown and secretive firm that once dominate programmed trading firm in late 2011, has now fallen from its high horse. As most of the folks in this circle remember...
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Algorithmic Species Dominate A New High Frequency Ecosystem On Wall Street
Shawn Gourley and Bob Goodson started a company called Quid which would “apply new algorithms, unconventional data sources, and novel visualizations to create a global intelligence platform“. Bob was the...
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Australian Exchange Sends Out A “Dark” Warning
As time continues to move on more and more organizations are beginning to see how dangerously fragmented and misunderstood our financial markets have become. As “lit” exchanges come under scrutiny...
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Microwaves And Tradeworx Thesys Technolgies Unit
The technology that runs Wall Street continues to make strides even as regulators and participants alike battle to comprehend what the market place has morphed into over the years. The...
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This Is Not Your Father’s Broken SOES Bandit Market
The “prophets” from Themis Trading, Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk, have highlighting what they can prove is our broken market structure. In the past I have enjoyed my exposure to...
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Front-Running: How A High-Frequency Trading Algorithm Fed On A Tweet
Check it out, here’s the run down. We caught a shady algorithm today with the help of @SellPuts and TradForProf.it chatroom. The problem with this is that we are worried...
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The Dynamics Of Order Books And Limit Orders In A High-Frequency Trading World
A preliminary white-paper written by Arne Breuer, Hans-Peter Burghof, and Julian Stitz was sent to me by Nick via Twitter. The paper was written in January of last year, addressing data...
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Themis Trading Uses What Little Time They Are Offered To Help Run-Of-The-Mill Investors Ward Off Ignorance
Where the hell do I start? First off Andrew Sorkin, HFT and their “liquidity” is not an “age-old question”. Perhaps if you spent less time entertaining (it’s no secret you’re...
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Grace Hopper – The Queen of Software
Grace Hopper is one hell of a woman. She joined the Navy at age 37, having been moved to work together along side her fellow citizens to fight in WW2....
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O Debt Brother, Where Art Thou?
With the ongoing saga taking place in Europe, June is setting up to be the month for the announcement of the latest LTRO-QE-Firewall-Twist. Considering Chairsatan Bernanke “tricked” the US Congress...
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Gold Registered For Delivery Under CME Contracts Jumps 15.28%
Last month I highlighted on Floating Path the major drop in Gold that was registered to be delivered under CME Futures contracts. Since May 29, the inventory pool for Physical delivery...
