The Securities and Exchange Commission has been inundated with complaints about Wall Street banks and hedge funds reporting astonishing streaks of profitable trading days. The trading firms are producing sizable gains with highly improbable regularity. Virtu Financial, for example, reported that it …
The SEC still hasn’t stopped manipulative high speed traders from ripping off investors, even though the abuses have been self-evident for years to anyone paying attention. A series of events have brought the subject of high frequency trading abuses once …
by LV In the past few days, an avalanche of interest has been triggered by the introduction of Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys, which sheds light on how high frequency algorithmic traders rip-off honest investors and mutual funds 24/7/365 …
by LV On May 6th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped almost 1000 points in a matter of minutes and just as quickly recovered most of the losses. This unprecedented event set in motion a series of conversations among public …
Trading concepts- Applying the right initiative to maximise returns The key to successful trading in the forex markets is knowledge and interpretation. Without market knowledge, the interpretation of the direction of the trend, the breakouts and trend reversals would be …
by LV Several Wall Street investment bank traders munched on their lunch, which was hand-delivered from Delmonico’s directly to their desks. The topic of discussion du jour was the SEC/CFTC’s report concerning the May 6th flash crash. Their mood was …