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Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second

Automated transactions executed at lightning speed

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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.

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Intrade Archive, recording trades and prices

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

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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, … Continue reading

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

- 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

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