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News/Algorithmic trading
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who had his conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code overturned earlier this year, has been hit with fresh charges.
10 August 2012
Knight Capital says that a "technology issue" at its market making unit was behind the volatile price movements in 140 shares yesterday that forced Nyse Euronext to cancel trades.
02 August 2012
Thomson Reuters is adding "psychological analysis" to its machine-readable news service, interpreting the emotion and sentiment of stories and social media posts to help investors develop trading strategies.
25 June 2012
A "superstitious" trading fund that uses an algorithm that picks stocks based on numerology and astrology is being launched by a design student.
29 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX is being sued by an investor over its botched handling of the Facebook IPO, which saw trading delayed and failed order cancellations.
23 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX Stockholm has slapped a Skr400,000 fine on Morgan Stanley after a Direct Market Access (DMA) client of the US bank mis-keyed an algo trade that spooked the markets and triggered an intraday auction by one of the Exchange's automatic volatility guards.
16 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX plans to compete with US brokers in the provision of algorithmic trading software tools.
14 May 2012
A pair of Norwegian day traders who cracked the algorithms of US broker Timber Hill have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Supreme Court, according to local press reports.
02 May 2012
Finance Watch, a European association lobbying under the banner 'making finance serve society', has called on the EU to crack down on high-frequency trading.
24 April 2012
Dutch high-frequency trading firm Optiver will pay $14 million to settle US regulatory charges accusing it of manipulating crude oil prices.
20 April 2012
Quote MTF has outlined plans for a European 'liquidity-on-demand' trading venue, giving participants control over how, and with whom, they trade.
19 April 2012
A US Appeals Court says that it overturned the conviction of former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code because such code is "intangible property" and so not covered by the laws he was charged under.
12 April 2012
With foreign exchange evolving into a mainly electronic marketplace, the industry is poised to see massive growth in the use of algorithmic trading strategies, according to research house Greenwich Associates.
03 April 2012
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is betting US$380 million on a three year technology programme designed to boost the island's standing on the world's financial stage.
28 March 2012
A European Parliament report is calling for the Commission to toughen up its crackdown on high-frequency trading under MiFID II.
26 March 2012
The broker-dealer unit of Getco has been fined $450,000 for failing to properly supervise its high-frequency trading.
23 March 2012
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has become the latest bourse to signal a crackdown on the huge number of messages high-frequency traders generate.
09 March 2012
US exchange operators Nasdaq OMX and Direct Edge have outlined incentive plans designed to encourage high-frequency traders to cut back on the huge number of messages they generate.
08 March 2012
Thomson Reuters is adding information and sentiment analysis from social media sites and blogs to its machine-readable news service.
07 March 2012
A government-sponsored independent review into the performance of UK equity markets has encountered deep scepticism among asset managers of the wisdom of opening national stock markets to competition and scathing criticism of the role played by high frequency traders in distorting market values.
29 February 2012
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