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  • Tabb: HFT, Fat Fingers and Market Insanity
    May 6, 2010 saw a complete meltdown of liquidity in a five-minute period of time and whether it was caused by high frequency trading or the lack thereof or it was an algos-gone-wild moment or was caused by a trader fat-fingering an order, we need to get to the bottom of this - and fast.
  • Woodbine's Samelson: Trading Mistakes, They Happen
    No amount of regulation or legislation is going to fully eliminate trading mistakes - they happen - and large scale changes in securities and index prices when a trading error occurs is the price we pay for better prices, narrower spreads, and more liquidity.
  • The Ethics of High-Frequency Trading
    There are many arguments simmering in the field of HFT fairness and ethics however, once the fear of revolutionary change passes, real changes in productivity are possible.
  • An Order Cancellation Tax on HFT Would Curtail Deceptive Quoting
    Taxing order cancellations would raise money from Wall Street while addressing disingenuous quoting from HFT firms on the visible order book.
  • Potential and Unintended Consequences of the Financial Transaction Tax
    The FTT may create natural incentives for financial services companies to move overseas, just as their manufacturing brethren has done over the past two decades.
  • HFT Firms Not Better or Worse, Just Different
    HFT firms are inherently no better or worse than other market participants, they are just different and institutional investors need to adjust their trading strategies accordingly.
  • Higher Frequency, Lower Risk
    Detractors claim that high frequency trading has a very risky profile and is capable of destabilizing the markets but Aldridge examines the risks of high-frequency trading in comparison with lower-frequency trading styles across every risk category.
  • Sweeping Re-Evaluation of Market Structure Necessary
    According to Cuttone & Company's McSherry, a sweeping reevaluation of current market structure should be undertaken immediately, before new rule changes are erected atop a flawed regulatory foundation.
  • What Ails Us About High Frequency Trading?
    Themis Trading's Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi sound off on three aspects of high frequency trading that are problematic.
  • HFT is Fair Game
    Allen Zaydlin, CEO of InfoReach sounds off in defense of high frequency trading.
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