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Hedge Funds to the Rescue: The Growing Influence of Hedge Funds on Wall Street
...return of 12 percent, compared to the S&P 500's 10 percent annualized return. Through August, the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index reports a 4.4 percent return, compared to a gain during...
CSFB Under Siege: The Algorithm King Defends its turf
...500 index. Guerilla Tactic Algorithms, for the most part, have been used to trade large-cap names. They have not been as effective with the stocks of smaller companies. CSFB is...
Managing the Russell Recon: A Decade of Change for Traders
...index. That index represents 98 percent of the total market capitalization of U.S. stocks. The stocks are simultaneously slotted into various sub-indexes. These include the large-cap Russell 1000 (the top...
The Outcome of Events: HedgeStreet and Philly Take a Lead in Strange New World
...a stock or bond. But, what if there was a way to bypass these investment types and trade the actually underlying events, such as the CPI index? It has already...
The Rocky Regulatory Road: Survival of the Small Broker Dealer
...trading veteran Arthur Pacheco. The firm had built a reputation in program trading and index-related trading and research. But with the number of market makers specializing in smaller stocks decreasing,...
Could More Volatility Sabotage Algorithms?
...Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index, or VIX, is at its lowest level in eight years. It hit 15.38 recently, a level not seen since 1996. Low levels of volatility mean...
More Power to The Buyside!
...advice and make forecasts. Peter Driscoll, senior equity trader at Northern Trust, a $570 billion index player. He is also a former Chicago Stock Exchange floor trader. Technology will continue...
Straddles, Fish and Chips
...buying and selling through the U.K. market. Later they tried index futures. But the Coullings became frustrated with some of the trading practices of the U.K. markets, including open outcry....
The Buzz About Pre-Opening Trading
...months following the launch of Nasdaq's closing cross. It immediately had problems. On December 17, matches in the Nasdaq 100 Index Tracking Stock, or the QQQ, went awry due to...
Back to the Stock Futures? Educating the Short Sellers and the Professional Traders
...of the market for futures linked to the S&P stock index. That doesn't exactly qualify single stock futures as a hot product. Still, OneChicago, the only exchange now trading single...
