Market Structure Insights
October 26, 2011
Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. OODA. This is how Pipeline Trading describes its predictive analytics for helping buyside customers identify large-block trading opportunities. For those of you who missed the news that rocked The Street this week, Pipeline, a dark pool, was fined $1 million by...
October 19, 2011
Did you see the Nicole Kidman film ten years ago called The Others? A woman becomes convinced her house is haunted. In case you’ve not seen it, I’ll save the twist, but it’s the twist that matters. Things are not as they seem. Crack WSJ...
October 12, 2011
I read this at an Occupy Wall Street site: “Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors. So he told his friends:...
October 4, 2011
In politics, Bill Clinton perfected the “trial balloon.” You float an idea of one shade because you’re planning on getting people to embrace an idea of another larger construct. In fiction writing, authors will create portent by ending a chapter with something like: “She could...
September 27, 2011
Isaac Newton posited 334 years ago in his third law of motion that mutual forces of action and reaction between two bodies are equal. I wonder what he’d think of the relationship between the US dollar and equities, where this small action produces that decidedly...
September 20, 2011
If you absolutely must have trading data fast, who’s your huckleberry? Burstream, apparently. The firm claims it can serve up actionable, meaningful trading data, no matter what market mayhem, in 600 nanoseconds. That’s 600 billionths of a second. The catch? You have to trade at...