European Vote on New HFT Regulations July 9th

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Europe to vote on new HFT regulations July9th:

The European Parliament will vote on July 9 to ratify the European Commission's controversial new regulatory proposals, including plans to slow down high-speed traders.

Markus Ferber, the German centre-right lawmaker steering the reforms through the European Parliament, wants trading orders to be forced to stay in the market for at least 500 milliseconds, or half a second, before they can be cancelled.

The world's fastest exchanges currently trade in less than 100 microseconds, or one ten thousandth of a second, so a resting time of 500 milliseconds would mean these trades were being slowed down by a factor of 5,000.

The proposals have prompted concern among the traders who argue they are simply using technology to glean a competitive advantage, something that traders have always done.

from: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012...rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews&rpc=43
 
i wager a pound they dont pass this.

once the hft/algo mob ( the usual suspects - rsj getco ) get wind of this and complain, whinge and backhander the right people in the chain then funnily enough nothing will happen.

cancel their cheating front running business model.

i dont think so.

naive to believe this will happen.
 
half a second won't make any difference. what a joke these laws are.

more like 5 minutes or don't bother putting a bid or sell and taking it off. the market is just like an auction, bids and sell orders are BINDING and you better have the cash t o pay for it and better have the shares to deliver it..at the present the market is a joke. borderline scam market. virtual market.

and you better have the cash at close to settle. or this market is a virtual video game.
 
what is so controversial about it.

either you have fair market or b.s. market.

The reason these HFT have been tolerated is they are like 70% of exchange fee revenues and fees the SEC receives. everytime a trade goes through HFT pays the SEC fees. call the SEC fees now if volume drops 70% these brokers, exchanges and SEC stand to lose a lot of 'revenues'--it's about the money.
 
The exchange like the NYSE and CME were 'non-profits'

and tokyo stock exchange is non-profit.

there is a reason they are non-profit exchanges. with for-profit exhange, they sell out to market participants who contribute the most revenue whic h are the HFT machines and market makers...
 
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The world's fastest exchanges currently trade in less than 100 microseconds, or one ten thousandth of a second, so a resting time of 500 milliseconds would mean these trades were being slowed down by a factor of 5,000.
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Wow, I wish I could afford that type of speed.
 
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Vote delayed until September:

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120706-703635.html
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A pity, as I'd be eager to see what a 1/2 second minimum would do, especially if there were no exemptions (excemptions being a major problem with almost all quoting rules/fees/etc. in the past -- many exchanges, and perhaps even some politicians, seem to want to give blanket exemptions to certain large firms, making the rules worse-than-useless in the end).

My guess is that a 1/2 second minimum for quotable orders would increase "usable" liquidity, not decrease it as some detractors (generally HFT firms themselves) have claimed. But who knows for sure -- it would have been nice if the Europeans had given it a shot to see what happens, in practice.
 
Honestly, the Europeans imposing this rule on their exchanges, will be good for the US exchanges (in a way). Foreign HFT firms will start playing their games on the US exchanges, bringing more money into the US. However, I am sure that money will leave as quick as it came, and small investors and traders will be screwed over as usual.
 
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