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The mispriced transactions totaled 442,600, from October 2008 through the start of this year. The amount owed customers for the mistakes was $420,360. Less than a buck a trade. On a 200-share trade, that equals less than 3 cents each.
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Impact of Reg SCI: Q&A with Jim Angel
May 17, 2013 – Here’s the take of James J. Angel, capital markets professor at Georgetown University, now on loan to the Wharton School, on what Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity will mean to exchanges, alternative trading systems and other market participants.
BTIG Trades With the Stars and Raises $4 Million for Charities
May 16, 2013 – Institutional broker BTIG celebrated its annual commissions for charities day this Tuesday by raising about $4 million for various charities.
Mathisson: Institute ‘Universal Order Types’
May 16, 2013 – The head of U.S. equity trading for Credit Suisse, Dan Mathisson, said Wednesday a potential solution for increasing complexity of trading on exchanges is to create a handful of ‘universal order types.’
Nasdaq Won’t, FINRA Will Bid on Consolidated Audit Trail
May 15, 2013 – Nasdaq OMX Group said it does not intend to submit a bid to build the audit trail of stock and options data being mandated by the SEC. FINRA, which operates the existing Order Audit Trail System, said it will.
OPTIONS REPORT: NYSE Looks to Cull List of Penny Names
May 15, 2013 – In a move intended to reduce quote traffic and the exchange operator’s administrative burden, NYSE Euronext is proposing to cut significantly the number of options subject to penny trading and to end the so-called “Penny Pilot” program.
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Fund Fight
May 1, 2013 – For years, exchange-traded fund trading volume surged. Now, it’s slumping too. Nasdaq, NYSE and BATS are now slugging it out with incentives, new order types and a new ETF-focused exchange to resuscitate trading.
At Odds Over Increments
Joining Forces
Inside Trading
Briefs
May 1, 2013 – Here are this month's Editor's Picks for the best and most newsworthy stories covered by Traders Magazine online news. These stories appear in abbreviated form. To read full length items, please visit our wesbite at www.tradersmagazine.com.
Block Trading, In Your Hand
Liquidnet To Trade Private Shares
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Demystifying Dodd-Frank
March 2, 2012 – Commissioner Scott O'Malia of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is on a mission. He says the process of writing new over-the-counter derivative contract rules needs more transparency. Over the past year he has repeatedly called for more roundtables and public comment on how rules are written. Why is this important? Because these rules, among other things, will determine which OTC derivative contracts must go through a clearing process and which ones can continue to use the old bilateral, dealer-to-dealer model.
Defining the Alpha Code
Word for Word with Nick Nielson
Rules and Regs
SEC Division Turns to Data Geeks
April 1, 2013 – After a rocky few years of flash crashes, trading glitches and botched IPOs, the Securities and Exchange Commission may finally be making headway in its battle with the streaming reams of disparate and diffused electronic data that define the modern U.S. securities trading markets.
SEC Eyes Order Type Development
SEC Pushes Anti-Glitch Regulation
Tech Notes
Looking Forward, Back at Risks
May 1, 2013 – Omaha, Neb.-based PrairieSmarts is rolling out software that looks at risks faced by securities in both the past and future.
Debate on EMS/ OMS Merger
ITG Adds Anti-Gaming to Dark Pool
Buyside Snapshot
Defining the Alpha Code
May 1, 2013 – The Boston Company’s David Brooks, along with his fellow traders, is spending more time mining and analyzing data to find lesser-known stocks that can provide clients with above-average alpha and boost returns.
Big Trades on Small Firms
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