"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...
Alpha Pages: You took great issue with Michael Lewis’ claim that the market is “rigged.” Why? Irene Aldridge: On the Michael Lewis topic, I suppose I am most disappointed in the pay-for-play quality of the book...
Candle Breakdown For those not familiar with the details of candlestick charting, it’s important to go over the fundamentals. The difference between the open and the close is called the “real body” of the candlestick...
Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box is a thriller based on actual events that takes you to the heart of our automated world...
NZDUSD has resumed its journey lower in recent trade, which in turn has negated a Piercing Line pattern on the daily. As noted in recent reports the potential for a sustained recovery was questionable against the backdrop of a core downtrend. A daily close below the 0...
Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) announced the creation of an innovative series of books focused on the fast-growing field of quantitative finance...
Personalization algorithms designed to know our intentions before we do form the backbone of the Internet Economy. And while these algorithmic systems may not fit all the criteria of genuine Artificial Intelligence (AI), their artifice is firmly in place in terms of their bias...
USDJPY bulls have seemingly lost confidence as indicated by a medley of Doji formations and short body candles. Yet in the absence of clear reversal signals there remains the potential for a journey higher to resume...
USDJPY traders are showing signs of indecision as denoted by a Doji on the daily. Yet in the absence of clear reversal signals there remains the potential for a journey higher to resume...
The daily close above the 107 hurdle may set the pair up for a grind towards the next psychologically-significant ceiling at 108.00. Lack of Reversal Signals Opens Further Gains The four hour chart reveals a congestion zone has formed between 107.00 and 107.40...
High-Frequency Trading Leads to Lawsuit Against Exchanges. Three big law firms have joined forces to pursue legal action against major U.S. stock exchanges, claiming the exchanges handed unfair advantages to high-frequency traders to the detriment of regular investors...
A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks. Google's Neural Networks See Even Better. Recently Google's neural network team demoed a system that can recognize a lot of different things in photos...
EURUSD is slightly down from this morning, but still only with three legs down from the highs. However, ideally current decline will unfold in five waves that would then confirm end of wave 4 at latest swing high. In that case we would look straight down to 1.2857 and much lower after a break...
What’s moving the market this morning? Which markets are most active? What drivers (or news) might come out to push the market further? The Setup...
The term scalping elicits different preconceived connotations to different traders. Despite what you may already think, scalping can be a viable short term trading methodology for anyone. So today we will look at what exactly is scalping, and who can be successful with a scalping based strategy...
Quant traders working in investment banking are not happy...
High-frequency trading, a practice that has become increasingly common in recent years, has gained more mainstream attention thanks in large part to Michael Lewis, the author of popular books like Moneyball and The Big Short...
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