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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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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.

Index Up, Volume Down

The Dow Jones Industrial Average may be up 1,343.15, or 10.2 percent, for the year and at an all-time record. But overall trading in equities is down.

One-Touch Is the Future, Exec Says

The institutional equities business is moving to a one-touch coverage model, but the buyside's participation is optional. That's the message Brian Fagen, Deutsche Bank's head of North American execution services, sent to attendees at last month's TradeTech conference in New York, according to conference-goers.

Liquidnet To Trade Private Shares

Liquidnet told Traders Magazine last month that the platform it has been working on for more than a year to allow trading of shares between privately held companies and institutional investors is now "substantially complete."

Block Trading, In Your Hand

The New York Stock Exchange is taking the wraps off a five-month-old system that allows floor traders to effect crosses in blocks of 10,000 shares or more, using electronic broking devices.

Top Five Took In Less Last Year

If all the talk of layoffs last year wasn't enough proof, the financial results from the five biggest U.S. equities houses confirm it: Last year was worse than the year before.

Volume and Commissions Seen Up

There is only one way to go when things hit rock bottom: up.That's the view on U.S. equity trading commissions and volume this year. One consultancy forecast that commissions will rise 9 percent and volume move up 6 percent.

ICE Buy of Big Board Not Chilling

Yawn. That's the reaction of U.S. equity traders and analysts to the acquisition of NYSE Euronext by the IntercontinentalExchange, the Atlanta-based operator of regulated futures exchanges, global OTC markets and clearinghouses in North America and Europe.

Rochdale in Limbo Amid Probe

The fate of embattled Rochdale Securities is up in the air. The Stamford, Conn., brokerage continues to seek an injection of fresh capital as it awaits resolution of a federal investigation into an errant billion-dollar bet on Apple stock made by a Rochdale trader.

Volume Drop Smallest Since July

Trading volume on the nation's 10 largest exchanges dropped 13.8 percent in November. That is the smallest monthly drop in market activity since July.

Wholesaling Draws Knight's Bidders

Getting more business through wholesale order flow, during a period of sluggish trading volumes. That's what industry observers say is driving the two market-making and electronic trading firms that at presstime were looking at buying Knight Capital Group, which recently suffered a nearly fatal, self-inflicted technical wound.

Fidelity Launches Dark Pool

Fidelity Capital Markets launched a new anonymous trading venue designed to help institutional traders find buyers or sellers of large blocks of stock, using retail order flow.

After SEC Settlement, ATS Flies LeveL

Despite some bumpy air and turbulence, LeveL ATS says its business has stabilized and that it is wooing clients back.

Bonuses Off for Third Straight Year

Equity traders can expect more coal in their stockings this holiday season, as bonuses are expected to be down for the third year in a row. Silver lining: 2013 is expected to be somewhat better, industry experts predict.

Officials Call for Order Type Talks

Representatives from exchanges, brokerages and money management firms on Nov. 9 called for a review of the hundreds of exchange order types in usage. Any such examination could mushroom into a broader review of market structure, they said.

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