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EDITOR'S LETTER
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Trading Through

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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ConvergEx Offers Real-Time TCA on Child Orders

ConvergEx Group announced that it is offering clients detailed transaction-cost analysis in real-time for every child order a client sends, not just the initial order.

ITG Launches Global Commission Management System

ITG has built a new system that offers the buyside a one-stop portal to manage their commission payments across the globe and across asset classes.

Credit Suisse Gives Buyside More Control in Paying for Research

Bulge bracket broker Credit Suisse is helping money managers who trade electronically pay their research chits more efficiently with its Best Broker Execution -BBX - system that lets the buyside trader designate which research-providing broker gets paid, how much and when.

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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.

Fund Fight

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.

ITG Adds Anti-Gaming to Dark Pool

ITG has added anti-gaming technology into the operation of its POSIT dark pool, to protect institutional traders from high-frequency trading firms trying to sniff out their orders.

ITG Algo Taps Auction Close

Agency broker ITG announced a new algorithm designed to help traders better trade during the close, or the final 15 minutes of the day.

Weeden Algo Targets End-of-Day Liquidity

Institutional broker Weeden & Co. has released a new algorithm designed to capitalize on the increased trading activity near and at the equity market close.

Rising Through the Ranks

Look out, Credit Suisse. Barclays is closing in on U.S. dark pool supremacy. Simply put, Barclays' LX dark pool is now the second largest in the United States, behind only Credit Suisse's longtime leader, Crossfinder.