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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.

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.

High Touch and Low Touch are Neck and Neck

By the end of 2011, trading technology will finally catch up to the telephone call.

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Trading's Ins and Outs

When hedge fund manager Dan Zanger looks to build a position, he likes his trader to pick at the quote to see how the market reacts. Based on the impact, he'll adjust block sizes--and the rate at which the blocks are handled--to fill the order

CIO Harris Embraces Trading

New leadership often brings new approaches. Teachers Retirement System of Texas took a fresh look at trading three years ago when T. Britton "Britt" Harris, a 25-year veteran, was hired as chief investment officer.

A Place in Trading History

Good traders often have a gut feel for what's about to happen next, an uncanny timing that can be prescient at times. Austin George, the one-time head trader at T. Rowe Price, who's been retired since 1992, recently fit that description.

Cover Story: Rebound

Despite access to an ever-growing menu of electronic trading toys with greater sophistication, some money managers are finding that there is still room in their repertoire for the tried and true of block trading: capital commitment.

The Frontier Market Kid

It's been a three-year trial by fire for the head trader of New York-based LR Global Partners. Brad Desjarlais trades in places that are as foreign to traditional U.S. stock pickers as they are exotic.

Cover Story: Lying in Wait

It's called anticipatory trading. And fleet-footed traders today are using the strategy to sniff out institutional orders in the marketplace and run ahead of them for profit, many in the industry say.

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