Content posted in August 2010
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Slicing the Alpha-Generation Pie
In building out their research capabilities, agency brokers are encroaching on the bulge bracket's turf.
A Bright Spot for Agency Brokers
As agency brokers expand into the alternative research area, they are becoming alpha generators, which turns out to be a more stable, if not growing, piece of the total commission pie.
Voice Trading in Derivatives Is Not Dead: Long Live the Squawk Box!
Sweeping financial reform of the OTC derivative market targets aspects of voice trading, however today’s traders rely on voice solutions more than ever.
The Demise of the Corporate Data Center
To secure their infrastructure and processes, Wall Street firms have built up castle walls around their data for years. But electronic trading is creating cracks in those walls.
IT: The Global Economic Accelerant
IT is a major driver of global economies, but traditional indicators such as GDP do not go far enough to accurately measure global competitiveness.
Perception Problems
What Apple's "antennagate" issues can teach us about innovation.
Using Real-Time Events in Electronic Trading
Event data is evolving from machine-readable news to give electronic traders new real-time factors
Has High-Speed Trading Cost Buy and Hold Institutional Investors Control of Their Orders?
We argue that the equity market goal of raising capital for corporations has been lost. Now a modern casino mentality and microsecond holding periods are undermining investor confidence and severely eroding the purpose of markets.
Is Your Website a Downside Risk? Why Web Performance Counts in Online Trading
Today, online stock traders expect their brokerages' websites and applications to combine the most comprehensive, customizable, dynamic market data available with extraordinarily fast and seamless trade execution.
Measuring Liquidity: A Challenge in OTC Markets
The credit crisis has demonstrated the need for a new generation of market-based liquidity measures in OTC instruments, according to David Austin and Gavan Nolan at Markit, who contend the focus should be on indicators of 'prospective liquidity.'
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Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
Advanced Trading takes you on an exclusive tour of the New York trading floor of GETCO Execution Services, the solutions arm of GETCO.
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