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    High-Frequency Trading Faces Challenge as Schumer Presses SEC

    July 27 (Bloomberg) -- High-speed trading in the U.S. stock market may face its biggest threat after Senator Charles Schumer proposed prohibiting so-called flash orders. Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat, urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban the practice in which some...
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    Chinese Steel Workers Kill Executive Who Planned To Take Over Steel Company

    BEIJING -- More than a thousand steel workers in China's northeast staged an at-times violent protest against the planned takeover of their state-run employer and a group of them killed a top executive at the private company that was to acquire it, Chinese state-run media reported. Workers...
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    FSA extends tests to 2000 traders and managers

    I should make Mr. Aleynikov an offer he cannot deny....:D
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    FSA extends tests to 2000 traders and managers

    Up to 2,000 traders and managers in the UK could face extra checks and even interviews by the UK financial regulator to ensure they are “fit and proper” to do their job. Traders, bankers and managers who exert significant influence over their companies are set to face additional scrutiny...
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    UK´s Darling concerned about what banks do for small companies

    "Slicing and dicing" isn´t anymore every investment bankers favorite sport...And now that the FSA is becoming "brutally administrative", it´s not even more fun to be "IB"... >>>>>>> Up to 2,000 traders and managers in the UK could face extra checks and even interviews by the UK...
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    CITADEL - Trading On Markets - What do customers want ?

    Nazz, can´t stand Ken Griffin. He´s a vulture-capitalist. Without his HFT team, he would be forgotten...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    - Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, is eyeing a capital raising of up to €4bn ($5.7bn) as part of a plan to buy Porsche. Last week the Piëch and Porsche families ended months of feuding by agreeing to fold the German sports carmaker into VW. But ratings agencies have warned that...
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    VW plans to raise $5.7bn

    Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, is eyeing a capital raising of up to €4bn ($5.7bn) as part of a plan to buy Porsche. Last week the Piëch and Porsche families ended months of feuding by agreeing to fold the German sports carmaker into VW. But ratings agencies have warned that...
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    Europe braced for rising credit card defaults

    European lenders fear a surge in consumer debt defaults as the US credit card crisis spreads across the Atlantic. The IMF estimates that 7% of the $2,467bn of consumer debt in Europe will be lost, with much of that falling in the UK. In the US, about 14% of total consumer debt of $1,914bn will...
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    UK´s Darling concerned about what banks do for small companies

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling will call on Britain’s banks to reduce the cost of loans to small companies as he seeks to prevent the economy from slipping further into recession. In a meeting at the Treasury in London today, Darling will tell chief executive officers from...
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    Bernanke: This crisis may surpass Great Depression

    Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke discussed the economy with average Americans on Sunday, saying the current financial crisis could be even more virulent than the Great Depression. "A lot of things happened, a lot came together, [and] created probably the worst financial crisis...
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    Bernanke: This crisis may surpass Great Depression

    I need a translator... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/newsviewer
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    CITADEL - Trading On Markets - What do customers want ?

    Citadel Investment Group LLC’s main funds gained 9.5% in June as corporate bonds rose, beating an industry indicator that was little changed. The Wellington and Kensington funds returned 31% in the first six months of the year, said a person familiar with the results who asked not to be named...
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    Short DAX at 7740

    To be precise : 5343.50.
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Fibonaccci : 1) 665.75 2) 723.25 3) 751.25 4) 779.25 5) 777.75 6) 805.75 7) 835.25 8) 881.50 9) 956.25 10 ) 978.00 ( extension ) I am really impressed how smooth it works...:)
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    High Frequency Trading "Pump and Dump" day. As I stated already yesterday - brazenness decides this game !
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    Kudos to MMs

    No, not Mr. Magoo market. Monopolistic market.
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Witnesses of imbecile behavior of HFT.
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    Times and sales showing increments of 1700 lots fired high speed. Total volume 22622 lots.
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