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outsourcing began with low-skill work, such as textile operations. As 3rd world workers gained more skills they started outsourcing higher skill jobs, such as microchip & plasma engine RD&M to biotech research. This trend is not going to be reversed. As the cognitive economy develops more and...

The law didn't actually change, but the simple mention by the SEC and congress that FLASH orders were coming under scrutiny made NASDAQ and BATS drop their FLASH orders back on Sept 1st. EDGX/A, ISE are the only ones still offering and promoting FLASH orders.

I read Lesson's book... and well.. the trouble wasn't really 1 bad trade, it was a loss that got bigger and bigger in a matter of years... the bank was unwilling to see the problems even when they send cash amounts that represented over 60% of the banks assets over to HK. They even had to seek...

Outsourcing is the way of the market to find ways around the migratory restrictions that were put into place in the 1900's. If you don't let people go where the high paying jobs are, the companies that have the high paying jobs will go to where the cheaper workers are.

Just use some order like RASH SCAN or ARCA Routed... they hit any NMS quote and they're pretty fast at it...

the SEC has no bussiness in futures. :)

Optiver is getting an inquiry by the CFTC for manipulation of oil future prices in Chicago. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/business/global/04optiver.html

Will you care to expand? I can see that you can back test using all data from the DOM feed, but what indicators/parameters do you use to define rules that allow a computer to back test price action?

2 distinct individuals trading as a team in a coordinated manner is known as collusion, that's a big nono. 1 trader trading with himself on 2 separate accounts is known as wash trading, that's also a big nono. I'm not saying you're doing any of these things... just saying be careful...

2 accounts working in tandem could be considered collusion, and that could get a regulator to knock on your door...

brokers usually make a commission on every share they sell. If they're able to choose what to buy/sell for the client then its a discretionary acct...

Ok, I created the categories, Trading Films and Trading Television Programs. They're still mostly empty, I added Rouge trader to Trading Films just to see how it's done. Now all that needs doing is to go into the wiki of each trading movie and add: (without the " ") "...

we should start a wiki about trading movies :)

There is no special sauce?

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what can u do? Ban computers from trading ? Or put speed limits , min holding periods or min time to cancel? Volume will just go overseas...

he makes a couple of good points for HFT. It's Evolution...

???? What do u mean ?

I found an interesting article from WSJ:

I'm at Swift... we develop our own platform. :)