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News/Algorithmic trading
The new circuit breaker system designed to avoid a repeat of 2010's flash crash will fail to avert another market meltdown unless it is coupled with 'liquidity safety valves', warns a new piece of academic research.
18 October 2012
India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) was forced to briefly halt trading this morning after 59 erroneous orders sent the Nifty index tumbling nearly 16% in a matter of minutes.
05 October 2012
The Australian arm of Credit Suisse has been hit with a A$52,000 penalty for pumping up the share price of a company by accidentally using the wrong trading strategy within its automated order processing system to buy stock on behalf of a client.
27 September 2012
The German cabinet is set to approve a draft law curbing high-frequency trading, according to Reuters.
26 September 2012
The Chicago Federal Reserve is calling for tighter controls on high frequency trading after finding that many firms are skirting the rules in the interests of speed-to-market.
18 September 2012
A UK-government commissioned working paper on the economic impact of MiFID II has hit out at several key computer trading rule proposals, warning that they could damage economic growth.
03 September 2012
Stock exchanges, including Nasdaq, have been forced to cancel trades after erroneous orders in a security sent its price rocketing, according to the Financial Times.
23 August 2012
Swiss bank UBS has set up a business area, called Quant HQ, offering quantitative trading clients access to its expertise and technology.
21 August 2012
Australian securities regulators have unveiled tough new controls on automated trading systems in a bid avoid the aberrent market behaviours witnessed in European and US marketplacse.
13 August 2012
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who had his conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code overturned earlier this year, has been hit with fresh charges.
10 August 2012
Knight Capital says that a "technology issue" at its market making unit was behind the volatile price movements in 140 shares yesterday that forced Nyse Euronext to cancel trades.
02 August 2012
Thomson Reuters is adding "psychological analysis" to its machine-readable news service, interpreting the emotion and sentiment of stories and social media posts to help investors develop trading strategies.
25 June 2012
A "superstitious" trading fund that uses an algorithm that picks stocks based on numerology and astrology is being launched by a design student.
29 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX is being sued by an investor over its botched handling of the Facebook IPO, which saw trading delayed and failed order cancellations.
23 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX Stockholm has slapped a Skr400,000 fine on Morgan Stanley after a Direct Market Access (DMA) client of the US bank mis-keyed an algo trade that spooked the markets and triggered an intraday auction by one of the Exchange's automatic volatility guards.
16 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX plans to compete with US brokers in the provision of algorithmic trading software tools.
14 May 2012
A pair of Norwegian day traders who cracked the algorithms of US broker Timber Hill have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Supreme Court, according to local press reports.
02 May 2012
Finance Watch, a European association lobbying under the banner 'making finance serve society', has called on the EU to crack down on high-frequency trading.
24 April 2012
Dutch high-frequency trading firm Optiver will pay $14 million to settle US regulatory charges accusing it of manipulating crude oil prices.
20 April 2012
Quote MTF has outlined plans for a European 'liquidity-on-demand' trading venue, giving participants control over how, and with whom, they trade.
19 April 2012
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