The final frontier is rapidly approaching: direct trading of overseas-listed stocks through discount brokers such as E-Trade and Schwab.
Consumer Direct, Trading Standards, the Office of Fair Trading and manufacturers also helped identify the fraudulent web sites.
In 1999 I moved to Florida to start another hedge fund and opened a brokerage firm catering to big traders and institutions looking for direct access trading of their high frequency algorithms, which is what my funds specialized in.
Tiring of the Big Apple, Gilani moved to Florida in 1999 and started another hedge fund and opened a brokerage firm focused on direct access trading of what would soon morph into high frequency algorithms, many of which he designed and still uses.
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Trinh, 26, and others opened accounts last year with Ameritrade, E-Trade and Trading Direct.
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E-Trade and Trading Direct say they don't keep records on their account holders' nationalities.
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Trading Direct, for instance, lends investors who are willing to assume a heavy debt load at a variable rate of 1.25 percent.
But discussions within such a smaller group would allow government leaders to confront the realities of climate change and engage in direct horse-trading without the static of thousands of other voices desiring to load their issues into the deal.
Three days after Direct Line shares started trading on the London Stock Exchange, that helps make the case for the Hester recovery programme being on track.
Morgan clawed back two years of total annual compensation, including restricted stock, and canceled options grants, from three London-based managers who had direct responsibility for the trading portfolio at the heart of the losses.
"On a benign Friday in August with no significant news event, it doesn't take much to push the market around, especially on the close, " said Michael Shea, managing partner of institutional sales and trading at Direct Access Partners in New York.
It launched Smart Trading, a direct imitation of Euwax, with the support of some big intermediaries.
Aggressive pricing helped Cummings surpass rival alternative trading sites, like Knight Trading's Direct Edge, in short shrift.
The NYSE says it needs more time to connect its systems to those of potential rivals, including the International Securities Exchange and Knight Trading's Direct Edge.
Flash remained a niche part of the industry until around June 2006, when a small stock-trading platform, Direct Edge, owned by Knight Capital Group Inc.
But upstart electronic trading sites like BATS Trading and Knight Trading's direct edge, which have been gunning to take market share from Nasdaq and the NYSE, were also cranking.
Increased trading yield estimates as a direct result of relaxation in Basel 3 requirements related to certain asset classes.
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And that is especially true when this kind of trading often puts banks in direct conflict with their customers' interests.
China is now by far Japan's largest trading partner, and its direct investments in Japan have grown sharply in recent years, albeit from low levels.
Plenty of companies are grappling with the aftermath of the storm, including Knight Capital, a trading firm that had to direct clients to reroute orders after its backup power system went down Wednesday.
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Now, partly thanks to flash orders, Direct Edge is the third-largest stock trading platform by matched volume in the country, according to Raymond James.
In addition, with the growth of direct market access (DMA) and algorithmic trading, asset managers and hedge funds are using broker dealer infrastructure to trade on the market, and potentially create trading problems.
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Even if the NYSE uses this as an opportunity to make even more trading electronic than it already is, for most individual investors, what happens on the trading floor does not have a direct impact.
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"Either merger would make it more difficult for other exchanges to compete with LSE in trading UK equities due to both bidders direct control or influence over the provision of clearing services, " it added.
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This has a direct impact, by increasing the financing costs of their trading operations and lowering the value of the bonds they hold.
Instead, the major white collar prosecutions since 2008 have come largely in the insider trading setting, and those have had no direct connection to the credit crisis.
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The SEC is proposing a ban on flash trading along with other issues grabbing headlines, like direct market access for high-frequency traders.
Schonfeld, who runs the trading outfit Schonfeld Group, says he has less direct exposure to stock markets than he did in the past.
Parera commended Mukherjee for sticking to the deadline of introducing a uniform goods and services tax by April 2010 and abolishing certain direct taxes--the fringe benefit tax, the commodities trading tax and the 10% surcharge on income tax.
And for Direct Edge, it's a greater ability to customize your trading strategy with a broader set of products and services.
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