http://www.tradersmagazine.com/issues/index.html Traders Magazine Current Issue Who do you want to trade with today? It appears that choice is growing in today's electronic marketplace. This month's cover story details how a few bulge bracket firms offer clients peace of mind through greater transparency in their dark pools.

]]> Electronic trading is on the rise outside the United States and the Eurozone. Several countries, such as Japan and Brazil, are seeing their markets move into the electronic trading realm as investors seek higher investment returns abroad.

]]> Volumes of exchange-traded funds are down, and many people believe that declines in correlations could be the cause.

]]> Academy Securities, a veteran-owned brokerage, has a vision of how the three-year-old company will expand its fledgling equities trading business. Academy's mandate is to give U.S. military veterans a shot at a Wall Street career.

]]> With Nasdaq's recent announcement that it planned to launch a third options exchange, the number of options exchanges could climb from nine to 12 this year. That has some brokers grumbling.

]]> The Chicago Board Options Exchange, for competitive reasons and due to member demand, will move its primary options trading platform from Chicago to New Jersey in the fourth quarter.

]]> Here are some recent hires and promotions in the equities trading world as Wall Street pros make that move, right now.

]]> Big banks and broker-dealers are seeking changes to the Volcker rule that will make it easier for them to comply with its requirements and still allow them to execute for their clients.

]]> The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a review to see if raising the minimum trading increment for so-called "emerging growth companies" and other small-cap stocks could increase liquidity in these thinly traded names.

]]> JPMorgan has announced a low-latency risk check system for speed sensitive traders. The firm previously used outside vendors for the task.

]]> The James River runs right past Rob Glownia's office, reminding the head trader for RiverFront Investment Group every morning that, like the river, trading is dynamic, whether the job is managing investors' daily cash flows or longer-term trading strategies.

]]> Wolverine Execution Services, a Chicago-based agency brokerage, is making available its first algorithm for equities trading.

]]> Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-speed trading products for high-frequency traders, is offering brokers pre-trade risk check software that performs in less than one microsecond.

]]> Using sophisticated monitoring and analysis techniques, bulge bracket brokers are starting to build profiles of the traders in their dark pools. They know who's naughty and who's nice, and they are using their newfound information to shore up the integrity of their trading systems.

]]> For some illiquid exchange-traded funds, the price isn't always right. Spreads can be unreasonably wide, luring the less informed to take the bait and accept a price that is far from reasonable. Fortunately, those spreads are slowly narrowing due to competition.

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