Tag Archives: trades

Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Automated transactions executed at lightning speed

Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations, Software | Tagged algorithmic trades, algorithmic trading, algorithmic transactions, algorithms, automated trades, automated transactions, hedge funds, high frequency trading, high-frequency automated trading, high-frequency traders, quant funds, quantitative analysis, statistical patterns, traders, trades, trading, transactions | Leave a comment

Tobin Tax = a tax on financial transactions

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

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.

Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Politics | Tagged Barney Franck, Finance, Financial Markets, financial trades, financial transactions, Nancy Pelosi, tax, tax on financial transactions, taxes, Tobin tax, traders, trades, trading, Wall Street | 2 Comments

Intrade Archive, recording trades and prices

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

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

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, History, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged archives, betting markets, event derivative markets, InTrade, Intrade Archive, prediction markets, prices, probablilities, trades, transactions | Leave a comment

The search for velocity — TradeFair Edition

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Information Technology, Software | Tagged BetFair, Martin Thompson, Prediction Market Software, prediction markets, Software, software for prediction markets, TradeFair, trades, transactions, velocity | 6 Comments

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

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Leading & Lagging Indicators | Tagged accuracy, advanced indicators, Barry Ritholtz, clueless mainstream media, event derivative markets, event derivatives, finance blogger, Market Liquidity, New Hampshire, omniscience, polls, prediction markets, the New York Times, trades, transactions, volumes, Wall Street | 5 Comments