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Neil Crammond

Assisted regulation and virtual pits

The recent claim by CME exchange and assisted regulators that its taken 5 years of monitoring to catch "Nav" the spoofer proves that perhaps anonymity trading no longer is required ? Perha...

28 Apr 2015
Neil Crammond

Why can exchanges exploit fair and orderly markets .

I am constantly asked about market abuse and manipulation within our markets and how best to combat these undesirable threats . Since entering the trading arena in 1982 I have witnessed a number of ab...

09 Apr 2015
Neil Crammond

regulators finally begin to outpace physicists in race to catch market manipulators !

ESMA want HFT venues to syncronize their clocks to within a nano second to help exchange supervisors track market abuses . This is a proirity to link the time stamp acknowledging an order after rece

19 Mar 2015
Neil Crammond

HAS HIGH SPEED PINGING FINALLY BEEN CAPTURED ?

HAS HIGH SPEED PINGING FINALLY FOUND A CATEGORY IN MARKET ABUSE ? HFT has tip toed through the market abuse field for years BUT now looks finally to have been captured . Under the COMMODITY EXCHANGE

19 Feb 2015
Neil Crammond

2015 exchanges regulate !!!!!!!!

2015 Exchanges attempt to end disruptive trading Multiple exchanges after a decade of denial are now addressing illegal manipulative trading on their markets !These disruptive practices ; "spoofi...

02 Jan 2015
Neil Crammond

rats in the granary

Perhaps now the supporters of "dark pools " and HFT at exchanges can retreat to where they belong .......... out of the market place ! In yesterday’s complaint, filed in New York state Supre...

26 Jun 2014
Neil Crammond

Disappearing market abuse !

Where has the market abuse / manipulation gone to? Has "flash boys " provided the catalyst to regulators and exchanges to rid us of market abuse and manipulation ? It has not gone unno...

19 Jun 2014
Neil Crammond

front running exchanges !

front running exchanges why do exchanges allow "front running " ? HFT and Algos have suffered the wrath of loss volumes over recent years but is the main culprits our exchanges ? One of ...

01 Apr 2014
Neil Crammond

accepting market manipulation

sadly at last the Bank of england have accepted that manipulation and market abuse has played a significant part in our markets . Sadly the market supervision departments at regula...

11 Mar 2014
Neil Crammond

Mr Regulator and master regulator

ARE EXCHANGES BEYOND RELEGATION 2013 saw regulators flex their muscles and issue huge fines to punish traders for manipulation and abuse in our markets. The majority of these fines were for offences c...

11 Feb 2014
Neil Crammond

NASDAQ omx volume breaks 100000

Nasdaq omx has arrived as its daily volume hits a new milestone . Despite 50% still yet to be enabled to trade this exchange their volumes and more importantly open interest grows ............... Sh...

25 Nov 2013
Neil Crammond

code of silence broken !

code of silence broken CITI , RBS . BZW . UBS . GSF . ICAP . RABOBANK cartel traders guilty of persistent market abuse . I struggle to find confidence in our markets when yet again senior players a

06 Nov 2013

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