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Approval for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India will soon take a hit as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government is working on plans to backburner the proposal as the result of an uproar from local traders...
The majority of market participants agree on the need to eliminate abusive practices no matter the frequency of trading. But one topic that remains an issue of debate is whether firms that employ high frequency trading strategies should be required to register...
Why HFT's race each other In the previous post, I explained that HFT's usually make their money by running market making strategies. This consists of selling liquidity to speculators at a price equal to the bid/ask spread...
EUR/GBP Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 0.7929, 0.7864, 0.7812 Resistance:0.7968, 0.8081, 0.8134...
Stock market analysts often use terms that are confusing to people who aren’t familiar with the stock market. This might make you think that you aren’t smart enough to invest in the stock market. This isn’t true, however...
What is Quantitative Finance? Quantitative finance (also known as mathematical finance or financial engineering) is the application of mathematical theory to the financial domain. It is a very broad term, covering many activities within the financial markets...
A lot of you have emailed recently asking what it is actually like to work in a quant fund. I've written before about my experiences as a quant dev but I thought I'd outline a normal day so you can get a feel for whether you would enjoy the role...
I am using this system manually for many years just to recover my deposit after losses. For now - I am trading it by Brainwashing EA...
In a commentary for The Hill, Modern Markets Initiative (MMI) senior advisor Peter Nabicht explains how investments in automation technology have transformed the old, closed trading floor model into a marketplace that is more transparent and accessible than ever before for today’s average investo...
The NZD/USD pair initially try to fall during the course of the week, but found enough support to push the market higher, testing the 0.88 level. That area getting broken to the upside send this market looking to the 0...
The New Zealand dollar fell against its U.S. counterpart on Wednesday, but losses were expected to remain limited as sustained concerns over the strength of the U.S. economic recovery continued to weigh on the greenback...
U.S. companies hired 281,000 workers in June, marking the biggest monthly increase since November 2012 and beating even the most optimistic market expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. Private job gains in May were 179,000...
Aussie found renewed buying interest at 0.9354 last week and has finally resumed recent upmove as price broke above resistance at 0.9461, bullishness remains for further gain to previous resistance at 0.9543, above there would encourage for headway to 0...
The rise of the renminbi’s prominence to the global economy, along with China’s huge status as creditor nation, has made SAFE an increasingly important player in international forex and financial markets…...
BP/USD Technical Strategy: Longs Preferred Morning Starsuggests potential for further gains Bearish patterns remain absent on the daily...
GoPro shares are looking a lot like the action camera videos its fans often take — breathtaking. Shares jumped 20% to $48.80 Tuesday and are up 103% in just four trading sessions following Thursday's $24 initial public offering. How much more pop is there in GoPro...
Turkey’s Energy Marketing Regulatory Authority (EMRA) has set up an Istanbul-based energy stock exchange. Officials from the energy watchdog told the Anadolu Agency that EMRA would announce an initial public offering for shares in the energy stocks...
The markets’ evolution to high-speed electronic trading has not been an entirely smooth path, but practitioners and advocates of the business note that net-net, the end result is a much better and more efficient market...
Blackstone Group LP (BX), already the largest investor in hedge funds, is signing on a team of three traders for the first such fund that it will manage directly, according to two people with knowledge of the plans...
