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BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday. The Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified industry...

BJ == Blow job?

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This rule is only valid for two weeks. SEC will cancel this rule on Oct. 1st. src: A very important person :)

[B] Enough said don't hate the player hate the game.

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No. A delta neutral trade (prefectly hedged trade) can be priced outside of the (N)BBO; i.e. multilegged option trades tied with Stocks.

I've been scraping finance.yahoo.com for US equity sector data, and indicies (UGLY) and need something more reliable. Yahoo does provide a good deal of data for free, however I'm willing to pay any vendor who can provide a simple API or EOD file that contains this information. Thanks...

Majority of it would be proprietary in house OMS/EMS, Ticker plant, and Algos you name it. It also it depends highly on the funds business model if their a quant/algo shop they will have tons of infrastructure and connections into all major ECN's and exchanges, they will also utilize Goldman...

Right now i'm screen scraping Yahoo which does not carry sector information for some very weird symbols that are not traded often, is anyone able to get sector data from a free or cheap source? Reliably? EOD data is fine.

Whale of an Idea By Barrons Last update: 4:53 a.m. EDT April 26, 2008Print E-mail RSS Disable Live Quotes EXCHANGE EXECUTIVES ARE lucky to have mostly completed stock offerings or sold out to the highest bidder. Their quasi-monopoly over options trading is facing tough new competition...

That's not true. You could essentially build your own ECN/ATS and match and negotiate orders internally before printing them to the open markets, you basically match buyers with sellers then cross the orders back at the central exchange once everyone agrees on the order you now force the central...

New Off-Exchange System will Focus on Block Options and Complex Strategies, Pending Regulatory Approval By Ivy Schmerken April 21, 2008 In a move to aggregate liquidity in the fragmented options market, Ballista, a start-up broker-dealer, is announcing today the first equity options...

The problem is that with options/futures contracts is that the order has to be crossed back at the exchanges but this doesnt mean that its not possible to create a dark pool for futures. This is a pretty new space even for Equity options space. Two companies off the top of my head who are...

Dark pools ATS/ECN's like BIDS, Liquidpoint etc.. For large hidden option blocks check out these guys - http://www.ballistasec.com

I had no idea anyone was offering this type of service http://www.ballistasec.com/broc_inside.html

From Silicon Alley Insider, March 17, 2008: Bear Stearns (BSC) is gone, so the markets are wondering who's next. The leading contender? Lehman Brothers (LEH). Lehman's stock dropped 15% on Friday, and it's down another 33% in pre-market trading. Some specific concerns: Like Bear Stearns...

They are crossing networks that provide liquidity that is not displayed on exchange order books. It is mostly useful for traders who wish to move large numbers of shares without revealing themselves to the open market. For example a firm I use to work for use to run their own crossing...

NYSE Euronext announced today that it will give NYSE Arca clients access to dark liquidity by routing orders to select broker-dealers and alternative trading systems, offering non-displayed quotes and aggregated liquidity. NYSE says the service, which is rolling out with 29 destinations...