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• Commodities Traders Increasingly Adopt Algorithms
  Commodities traders increasingly are adopting algorithms, but these aren't the equity markets' automated trading strategies, as commodities algos often make room for human discretion. By Ivy Schmerken
• The Search for Alpha: Analyzing Unstructured Data
  Researchers and Wall Street firms are analyzing the avalanche of Internet content -- including news feeds, blogs and Twitter posts -- to help improve trading performance.
• Alpha Capture Systems Measure the Value of Sell-Side Trade Ideas
  To drum up commissions, sell-side sales professionals increasingly are communicating trade ideas to buy-side clients via alpha capture systems such as youDevise's Trade Information Monitor, which provide performance metrics around the trade ideas.
• High-Frequency Trading Controversy Continues to Swirl
  Regulators are scrutinizing the surge in high-frequency trading strategies, which account for more than 60 percent of equities executions by some estimates. Charges of unfair access likely will continue to drive the HFT controversy in 2010.
• Investment Adviser ProfitScore Capital Management Promises Hedge Fund-Like Returns In a Separate Account
  In an innovative approach, the investment adviser uses actively traded mutual funds to go long and short from inside a separate account to generate hedge fund-like returns.
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