Market Structure Insights
September 3, 2014
Facebook collaborated with two respected universities to study your emotional responses when shown different kinds of news. Without your knowledge. We learned in June, you might recall, that Cornell, the University of California at San Francisco and Facebook delved into the doings and feelings of...
August 27, 2014
Let’s talk about houses. Let me explain. Twice yesterday I encountered an issue, not a new one though. We were discussing it on a conference call too, preparing for a market-structure session Sept 9 at the NIRI Southwest Regional Conference here in Denver – which...
August 20, 2014
We’ll be listening in the car to a song on satellite radio’s The Pulse, trying to keep current, and I’ll say to Karen, “Do you understand what he’s saying?” You may feel the same way about equity-market rules. Take for instance the Trade-At Rule. No...
August 13, 2014
Know the song by OMC? Jumped into the Chevy. Headed for big lights. Wanna know the rest? Hey, buy the rights. How bizarre, how bizarre… The market-structure mashup recently took a somewhat bizarre turn. InterContinental Exchange, owner of the NYSE, bought the rights to high-speed...
August 6, 2014
Some would argue I should’ve hit him. Only kidding! But let me tell you a story. I was driving yesterday and saw approaching from the left at a good clip on a skateboard some lout on the sidewalk in backward cap and shorts, head down...
July 30, 2014
I’ve made South Dakota jokes – “fly-over state,” “waste of dirt that could have been used making Colorado larger,” etc. Not again. It’s but six hours by car from Denver and we love road trips, so we put a junket to Mount Rushmore on the...