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People On the Move
...joins to head U.S. program sales trading and index analytics. Govoni previously spent eight years at Merrill Lynch in agency and risk trading. William O’Brien joins to lead the quantitative...
Traditional Options Exchanges Embrace Maker-Taker Model
...the ISE launched maker-taker pricing for the QQQQ index option, as well as contracts on Citi and Bank of America. Under the program, the ISE pays market makers 10 cents...
Traders On the Move
...Mark Govoni joins to head U.S. program sales trading and index analytics. Govoni previously spent eight years at Merrill Lynch in agency and risk trading. William O’Brien joins to lead...
Getting Under the Hood with Short Sale
...Rule 80B that goes into effect if the New York’s 80B does. The major derivatives will halt trading in certain index products if NYSE Rule 80B goes into effect. Rule...
Slowing Things Down
...halt trading in certain index products if NYSE Rule 80B goes into effect. Rule 80B has only been triggered twice: both times on Oct. 27, 1997, during the financial crisis...
Rebuttal: Some High Frequency Trading Is Good, Some Is Bad
...having to asset prices in general. This is a "big picture" hang-up we have. If there are hundreds of different styles of market players (value, GARP, momentum, index, HFT, day-trader,...
High-Frequency Trading Hits a Wall
...at NYSE Arca, told attendees at a recent industry conference. "But those types of accounts struggle when the VIX is where it is." The VIX, an index created by the...
Commentary: How High Frequency Trading Benefits All Investors
...The overnight change in the trading patterns of the Nasdaq 100 Index in 2001 highlights the competitive impacts of the SEC reforms and foreshadowed the dominance of the high frequency...
Cover Story: Filling the Void
...The mostly index-based funds now hold around $800 billion in assets, up from $622 billion just two years ago. All of that is good news for the trading community. In...
Cover Sidebar: It’s All Relative
...Thus, more active managers have found a place for relative return in their portfolios. Relative-return strategies are benchmarked to an index–letting the portfolio perform relative to, say, the S&P 500....
