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Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second

Automated transactions executed at lightning speed

Tobin Tax = a tax on financial transactions

Sounds like Jason Ruspini shouldn’t lose sleep over it —it won’t happen:

Previously:
- Paul Krugman Tries to Foist Specious Argument in Tobin Tax Debate.
- Jason Ruspini is against the Tobin Tax.

Intrade Archive, recording trades and prices

Intrade Archive, recording trades and prices
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By mister the great research scientist doctor professor Panos Ipeirotis

The search for velocity — TradeFair Edition

Martin Thompson, Engineering Director at TradeFair:
Every sub-millisecond counts for our customers. They need to be able to pull a price, if the market moves, in order to reduce the risk and allow them to run the spread tighter. Also, algorithmic traders want the lowest latency, so they can see a price [change] and spot the [...]

Ubber finance blogger Barry Ritholtz believes in magic. He believes that, with more volumes on the event derivative markets, comes the Omniscience —capital “O”.

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Our good friend Barry Ritholtz.has persuaded himself that our real-money prediction markets suffer from an irremediable and fatal problem: liquidity on political event derivative markets is too thin for smart Wall Street people like him to take their market-generated probabilities seriously. Barry Ritholtz is keen to tout oranges–apples comparisons: the NYSE volume versus the Obama–Clinton [...]

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