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Bloomberg Algo Shines Light into Dark Pools

Bloomberg Tradebook is giving its buyside clients a flashlight they can use to peak inside dark pools and gauge how their orders are executing.

Q&A with Barclays Capital's Brian Fagen

Amid a torrent of new market structure proposals from the SEC, Congress and market pundits, Brian Fagen, head of equities electronic trading sales, spoke with Traders Magazine about some of the issues confronting the markets and investors, as well as trends in electronic trading and order routing.

Playing In Small Caps

For the small-cap trader, fragmentation remains a major nemesis, says Bridgeway Capital's Dave Jennings. This is especially true for him, since half of his trading is done in companies with market capitalizations ranging from $100 million to $2 billion.

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CBOE Unveils New Front End

The Chicago Board Options Exchange has a new way for options traders to access the markets.

Cover Story: Not So Fast!

Jim Angel called the flash crash. In an April 30 letter, the Georgetown University professor and market structure expert told the SEC that "with so much activity driven by automated computer systems, there is a risk that something will go extremely wrong at high speed." Six days later he was proven correct.

Deutsche Bank Shakes up Algos

Jose Marques, Deutsche Bank's new head of equity electronic trading, wants the firm to build trading tools that take into account what algorithmic trading will look like tomorrow, how it will evolve.

RBC's Electronic Trading Group Grows Head Count With An HFT Flair

Take a page out of the high-frequency traders' playbook and offer it to institutional clients. That's the game plan at RBC Capital Markets' electronic trading group.

HFT Leaves Footprint at SIFMA Tech Expo

High-frequency trading remains the story, the subject, the thread, the gossip and the conversation of the day in the equities business.

Review: Floor Plan

As far as books for Wall Street professionals go, there have been plenty written about investment banking, trading techniques, investing and the securities industry's back-office operations. But there are very few that take the reader onto the trading floor.

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