Market Structure Insights

January 30, 2013

You can wet a finger and run it on the rim of a glass, producing a hum. Sustained, that frequency can shatter glass. Do high-speed markets have resonant frequency? In April 1850 the Angers Bridge over the Maine River in France collapsed, killing 226 French...

January 23, 2013

Don’t forget to write your letters, folks! Which letters? See last week’s Market Structure Map on prompting the NYSE or the NASDAQ to file a rule for better data. Speaking of rule-filings, here’s an example. Last week ahead of an SEC review deadline, NYSE Arca,...

January 16, 2013

“Nobody seems to care about the issuers.” That short sentence in an email from an investor-relations officer recently reflects what many in our profession feel about share-ownership and trading data for public companies. Back in March 2011, we decided to do something. You old-timers here...

January 9, 2013

What surprised me most was how twice as many people knew “high-frequency trading” compared to “dark pools.” The Nasdaq’s Mike Sokoll, Liquidnet’s Nicole Olson and I kicked off a session on how equity markets work at NIRI’s conference on IR fundamentals in Santa Monica yesterday....

January 2, 2013

Happy New Year! Boy, where to begin. With the Fiscal Cliff arrayed theatrically as the curtain rises on 2013, it’s a crapshoot picking what to write in the program notes. So we’ll take aggressive short sellers. No, we don’t mean market Sentiment favors shorts. As...

December 19, 2012

No, our title does not refer to Surveillance.  Despite the Thomson/Nasdaq deal last week. Yesterday mavens of equity markets converged on Capitol Hill to debate trading woes. Apparently the Senate, unsatisfied with just one geological trope (“Fiscal Cliff”), must examine “Dark Pools.” If you missed...

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