Profile of Ivy Schmerken

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Ivy is Editor-at-Large for Advanced Trading and Wall Street & Technology. Ivy is responsible for writing in-depth feature articles, daily blogs and news articles with a focus on automated trading in the capital markets. As an industry expert, Ivy has reported on a myriad number of topics including high frequency trading, algorithmic trading strategies, market structure, electronic trading in fixed income , colocation in data centers, Dodd-Frank regulation and the new derivatives landscape. Ivy meets with software companies and other innovators and writes about cloud computing, OMS/EMSs and other financial technologies.

Articles by Ivy Schmerken
posted in May 2000

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Market Data: Y2K, Capacity Planning and the Internet

5/31/2000
The $6 billion market data industry faces exponential growth due to decimalization and the potential for linked options exchanges.

Internet Sites Turn up the Volume on Whisper Numbers

5/30/2000
An unofficial earnings estimate—created by analysts and now, individual investors, continues to have a significant impact on the direction of stock prices in the five to 10 days before or after a company announces its earnings.

Internet Attacks Wake Up Financial Firms to Security

5/19/2000
Responding to the recent spate of hacker attacks on major commercial Web sites, many financial firms are evaluating their Internet security.

Open Season on Exchanges

5/19/2000
if it’s so easy to build an exchange from scratch, why are officials at the largest and most successful futures exchanges in the world racking their brains over going electronic?

Derailed by Decimals

5/12/2000
As a solution to the decimalization crisis, perhaps Nasdaq and other exchanges should be doing more outsourcing, so they can focus on their core competencies--trading stocks.

Hacker Attacks: Bracing for the Next Wave

5/12/2000
While the dust may have settled on the Denial of Service attacks that paralyzed major Web sites such as eBay, CNN, E*Trade and Yahoo this winter, security experts are warning users that hackers may strike again.

Financial ASPs Deliver Apps on Tap

5/12/2000
In a rush to position their software companies in the hot market for renting access to software over the Internet, a number of financial service and capital markets software companies are declaring themselves Application Service Providers or ASPs.

Ameritrade Raises the Bar on Performance

5/12/2000
CIO Jim Ditmore increases the scalability, capacity and reliability of Ameritrade's trading system.