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Cover Story: The Secret World of Hedge Funds: Forget about George Soros and Tiger...
...hedge funds worldwide are performing comfortably and showing renewed signs of vitality. The CFSB/Tremont hedge fund index posted a 3.7 percent return in June. That pushed the alternative investment benchmark...
Marriage on the Rocks?
...would likely have succeeded without the Nasdaq and Amex linkup. The ETFs are based on indexes from broad markets, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq 100 Index,...
Traders Tools For The Digital Age
...directional change (ADX), the directional moving index (DMI), and the relative strength of a stock to the S&P 500. Other features include alert messages and interactive charts. A trader can...
Washington Watch – The Tail Wags the Dog
...are discussing the possible changes. Only index futures are currently traded. Futures on individual stocks were banned in 1982 in a turf war between the SEC and the CFTC over...
Cover Story: The Next wave
A frightening thought must strike executives at market making firms when the Nasdaq Composite Index hits skid row: What good is the best military-style planning if the sun finally sets...
A Walk on the Wild Side: The roller-coaster ride of the U.S. stock market...
...help as investors pour disproportionately large sums of cash into technology issues. Those stocks have certainly helped propel the Nasdaq composite index above 5,000. The accompanying volatility, however, has been...
Unlocking, Uncrossing Nasdaq Stock Market Requiring Lockers’ to Trade 5,000 Shares
...fine on the brokerage giant and its former head of Nasdaq trading, David Robert Slaine, for fraudulently raising the prices of nine stocks that underlie the Nasdaq 100 index. Some...
Cover Story – Masterminds of the Universe: Greasing the SLK Trading Wheels
...large execution point for program trades. The introduction of the NDX, the Nasdaq 100 index, and its corresponding options and futures has been a big part of the change." Williams...
Tom Williams
...York Stock Exchange specialist, Wagner, Stott. His beat was proprietary index arbitrage, where he managed equity execution and also developed some electronic program trading technology. He started TLW Securities in...
Is the Reform Worse Than the Problem? A Stock Market Chief Takes a Second...
...of the stock index futures department at the now defunct Kidder Peabody, states in a pamphlet he recently published. "Settled doctrine or not, it makes no sense to turn the...
