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Algorithms that execute thousands of trades per second

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 21, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Automated transactions executed at lightning speed

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Tobin Tax = a tax on financial transactions

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 2, 2009 — 2 Comments

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

Written by Chris F. Masse on October 6, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Intrade Archive, recording trades and prices
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The search for velocity — TradeFair Edition

Written by Chris F. Masse on February 19, 2009 — 6 Comments

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 [...]

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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”.

Written by Chris F. Masse on May 20, 2008 — 5 Comments

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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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