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London-based bitcoin exchange Coinfloor is looking to expand its operations by including trading option for a wider range of currencies. The Financial Times, citing sources, reported that the exchange will accept deposits in US dollars, euros and the Polish zloty beginning 21 October...
Securities trading—where Wall Street got its start—came back to life in September after an extended lull that crimped bank earnings. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc...
The face of automation on Wall Street is a computer hooked up to nine blinking screens that goes by the name Quantitative Market Maker, or Q.M.M. Until last year, the work that Q.M.M. performs was handled by human traders at JPMorgan Chase, who would shout prices into a phone and yell “Done...
With the sudden passing of Blackfield Capital following its bankruptcy on Friday, clients are encouraged to “look for Kim Karapetyan in the US” as he has allegedly fled Russia download What can best be described as an unpleasant surprise has rocked the world of online trading in Russia, as one of...
Athena Capital Research LLC used $40 million to rig prices of thousands of stocks including EBay Inc. (EBAY) for at least six months in 2009, U.S. regulators said today when fining the high-speed trading firm $1 million...
Fundamentals: The Yen weakened after a media report fuelled speculation that the GPIF will raise its target for foreign bonds and shares close to the 30% marker from previous levels of 23...
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him...
What is Revolution R Open? Revolution R Open is the enhanced distribution of R from Revolution Analytics. Revolution R Open is based on the statistical software R (version 3.1.1) and adds additional capabilities for performance, reproducibility and platform support...
The last post demonstrated that far from being a world-beating, absolutely amazing strategy, that Harry Long’s Structural “Arbitrage”, was in fact a very risky strategy whose drawdowns were comparable to that of the S&P 500 itself during the financial crisis...
Executive Summary High-frequency trading (HFT) has recently drawn massive public attention fuelled by the U.S. May 6, 2010 flash crash and the tremendous increases in trading volumes of HFT strategies...