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Bloomberg Leak Revives Big Data Fears
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As most news outlets, other than Bloomberg, have reported since Friday, the data provider fell into some hot water with Wall Street when data leaks were discovered at some point...
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Top Floating Path Posts Of 2012
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What a year it’s been! I started this site in January, but really didn’t get anything going or post regularly until several months later. Since then, post frequency has steadily...
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Take The Nanex Challenge, Win $10,000 Of Fiat Currency
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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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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%
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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
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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
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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
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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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Direct Edge CEO on Knight Trading
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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...









