Category Archives: Equity Markets

Flash Crash : Equity Plunge

The recent plunge in equity markets has placed high frequency trading platforms under fire from both regulators and political administrations on both sides of the Atlantic. At one point last week, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped nearly 1000 points … Continue reading

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The New Face Of Prime Brokerage

The prime brokerage landscape has changed dramatically since the Lehman’s  collapse in 2008. A couple of years ago both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had 2/3rds of the Prime Brokerage Market. Today, the top 4 brokers now control 68% of … Continue reading

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Exchange Independence

Over the last 100 years, exchanges have continued to provide a key service in the form of price discover, that is matching buyers and sellers and ultimately discovering the price that a trade will take place. The price discovery process … Continue reading

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Challenges for High Frequency Trading in 2010

I read an interesting article in the FT earlier this week entitled High Frequency Trading (www.bit.ly/4J9ERj). The main points were that High Frequency trading now accounts for 42% of US equity volume. This has been driven by co-location strategies, placing servers … Continue reading

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