Market Structure Insights
June 7, 2011
Coming to NIRI National 2011 next week? Please visit us at Booth 304! We have no helicopter rides or trips to the Bahamas to give, but we do have a really cool microfiber for keeping those ubiquitous touchscreen pads and smartphones sharp. June launched by...
June 1, 2011
It’s a question that burns in the minds of IROs daily. No, not that one. This one: “Will an ISO post to the Nasdaq if the TIF modifier is one other than an IOC?” Sentences like that are why alcoholism remains widespread. It’s also the...
May 24, 2011
Want to know about dark pools? Join the NIRI Virtual Chapter at noon eastern time Wednesday May 25. I’m moderating the discussion. The all-star panel includes Nicole Olson of storied dark pool Liquidnet; Adam Sussman of expert market-structure research firm TABB Group; and Joe Saluzzi...
May 17, 2011
NBBO would be a good name for a rock band. But it stands for “National Best Bid or Offer.” It also appears to be some kind of joke, because everyone tries to avoid it. The NBBO stems from legislation passed in 1975 by Congress to...
May 10, 2011
Maybe we should leave more often. Out just one week, and both silver and Osama Bin Laden’s house go on the auction block. Sunday night after flying back from Antigua by way of Newark, I reviewed a week’s worth of client stock alerts for perspective....
April 26, 2011
I am the doofus on camera that I feared I was. Fortunately, Lou Cordone, head of Thomson Advisory Services is not a doofus, so we balanced out. We said last week we’d have big news about the Issuer Data Initiative? Thomson Reuters heard about the...