That's funny, I know a handful of guys that use algo trading in the bobl and they were very excited when they heard it was going back to full ticks... and very dissapointed to hear that it wasn't happening yet.Quote from electricshock:
Are you taking the piss?
If you aren't then go away and do some homework,clearly at this time you're not in a position to be involved in a discussion that you obviously know nothing about.
You haven't linked the growth of algo trading to the growth of the market? You do realize that algo trading has been around for years, right? And you also understand that the current lack of volume is due largely to massive deleveraging as well as some major players drying up, right? Not to mention that the recent economic uncertainty is making it very risky for speculators to trade massive size.These markets grew consistently for years until this ridiculous algo/program nonsense arrived.Since then we have seen a marked deterioration in market consistency and quality.
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well here we are still with no news what so ever from eurex.
no official annoucnement on the latest news section of the eurex website.
just the original newsflash.
call me old fashioned but i do believe this full tick will not come back.
i maybe wrong and stand ready to be proven wrong.
i dont buy into this ' software companies were not ready ' bullshit.
they changed it to half tick easy enough if i remember correctly.
liffe did not delay the sterling full tick and plenty of people and algo companies trade that.
it was a small fish that we hooked for a while but alas its gone.
thanks a bunch eurex.
i hope the volume falls again.
