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High-frequency trading firm to pay $16M penalty. A New York-based high-frequency trading firm was hit with a record $16 million settlement penalty for violating a federal rule that requires all broker-dealers to maintain minimum levels of net liquid assets or net capital...
EUR/USD continues to show secondary flat movement this week, and this pair was trading in the mid-1.28 range in European session. Taking a look at today's key events: French Manufacturing PMI improved to 48.8 points, German Manufacturing PMI dipped to 50.3 points...
EURUSD is looking bearish still, even after quite a rally too. Notice the last round of buyers is quickly met with sellers with the bearish bar engulfing the previous bullish bar. Buyers made one last attempt to push the price up. It was soon met with resistance and sell orders flooded...
Due to its high productivity at relatively low costs, algorithmic trading has become increasingly popular over the last few years...
Investors bracing for higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve in 2015 need to expand their horizons or risk being taken aback...
"The person who minds nobody's business but his own is probably a millionaire." - Anonymous This article provides initial empirical evidence on HFT activity on EU equity markets. HFT firms account for one - quarter of traded volumes (60% for investment banks) and around 60% of all order messages...
The greenback dipped from four-year peaks against the basket of other major currencies on Tuesday...
On Tuesday the euro rose to session highs against the dollar after data showed output in the euro zone private sector grew at the slowest rate so far this year in September. The euro zone composite output index dipped to 9-month lows of 52.3 from 52...
Millennium Management has continued its London expansion, poaching senior traders, researchers and portfolio managers from JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Nomura as well as targeting other hedge funds for talent...
The WSJ: Alibaba founder Jack Ma has become the richest man in China, according to the Hurun Rich List...
Laura Ramadei, is a bartender in New York City. She posted an open letter on Facebook to the hedge fund manager who she said groped her. She said he only left a $2 tip. She posted his receipt on facebook: Interestingly, the New York Post got a hold of Lederman and asked him about the incident...
It is interesting to talk to individual investors to learn how they take their decisions, what their goals are and where they are going. You see there is an enormous amount of strategies and techniques, along with costly mistakes they make...
You can now Copy My Trades September 23rd 2014. Scalped EURUSD and XAUUSD overnight, quite profitable. Otherwise I am wondering about Kiwi and milk production figures later in the week...
Andrea Orcel is shaking up UBS. As Financial News noted last week. UBS has been hiring all sorts of new senior investment bankers this year (eg. Ian Carnegie Brown, Nick Reid, Giles Borten, Glenn Rewick) as Orcel ‘hot rods’ the investment bank for better performance...
Chinese demand for iron ore weakened squeezing the price for Australia's largest mineral export. It's a similar story for most of the nation's other top mineral exports, says UBS analyst Daniel Morgan...
Asian shares recovered on Tuesday while commodities won a break from recent selling pressure after the information that China's massive factory sector outwent the market's bleak expectations...
AUD/USD hit 0.8923 during late Asian trade; the pair subsequently consolidated at 0.8909, gaining 0.41...
School teacher from China named Jack Ma visited the United States for the first time in 1995 - he established small translation company in China and visited the U.S. as part of his translation business...
Today emerging-market stocks dropped to a 15-week low, led by technology companies and raw-material producers. Chinese shares rose after a manufacturing gauge topped estimates, Bloomberg reports...
Chinese social Finance website Xueqiu.com got USD40 million investment from Renren.com and Morningside Ventures. Xueqiu's products include website and application for smart devices...
