They should examine rate of flow, average time between orders, balance between buy and sell orders, and order sizes, to determine whether the order flow has become anomalous.
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The next steps in the OpenTCA initiative include branching out from the initial group of broker sponsors to include buy-side and additional sell-side representation in order to establish a process for adoption of best practices.
Traders and active investors who would rather buy than sell short in order to take advantage of any setback in the Asian stock rally may want to consider a leveraged, inverse alternative: the ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 ETF (NYSE: FXP).
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They help generate extra volume from "black box" traders who use computer programs to buy and sell stocks in millisecond intervals, often for a tiny loss, in order to reap rebates of 20 cents per 100 shares.
There has been some market chatter that Asian central banks, which are thought to have conducted dollar-buying intervention over the last few weeks, may be looking to sell the dollar to buy currencies such as the euro and the Australian dollar, in order to diversify their portfolios, Ryan said.
They would sell euros, Aussie dollars and U.S. dollars in order to buy yen and repay the loans.
The company also plans to ship to pre-order customers by June and will sell it through Amazon, Best Buy and other retailers.
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Sadly, the wheeler and dealers of the industry are fully aware of this and therefore create ignorance quite deliberately in order to sell things that people would not buy if they were fully informed.
Before the new rules a mutual fund or hedge fund that wanted to dump 100, 000 shares of Microsoft quickly could, for example, bypass the New York Stock Exchange and sell them all at once on a different exchange if it saw an open order to buy 100, 000 shares--even if the offer price on the NYSE was a nickel higher.
Before the new rules a mutual fund or hedge fund that wanted to dump 100, 000 shares of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) quickly could, for example, bypass the New York Stock Exchange and sell them all at once on a different exchange if it saw an open order to buy 100, 000 shares--even if the offer price on the NYSE was a nickel higher.
Shares of this soon-to-be-independent company seem likely to be a classic opportunity to buy low during bad times in order to, hopefully, sell higher later on, when times are better and everybody loves educational publishing.
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