We would all be better off if our leaders in government recognized that when we trade, we're exchanging products for products--money merely the measuring rod of value that increases the frequency of exchange.
By contrast, workers in groups with a lower frequency of favor exchange were only more productive when they received more favors than they gave.
Senator Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) pointed out in a recent letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission that he would like high-frequency traders to take on more obligations.
The Wall Street Journal says the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether high-frequency trading firms are distorting prices by quote-stuffing, placing huge numbers of orders and canceling them.
The SEC is also studying the effects of various trends that have shaped the U.S. stock markets over the course of the last decade, including the proliferation of high frequency trading and of off-exchange trading in so-called dark pools.
Another trend that he says concerned him: the central role high-frequency firms play in the trading of exchange-traded funds.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has chosen technology from Solarflare and Arista on 10 Gigabit Ethernet for high frequency trading across CBOE Holdings.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission put new regulations in place in January 2005 that are designed to better monitor the frequency of failures to deliver, but this Reg SHO has just raised more questions.
The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreign exchange (FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been studying a number of proposals that would put an extra burden on firms engaged in high frequency trading strategies or on firms assisting other firms with high frequency trading.
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