Knight was the biggest handler of trades by small investors.
Thorp may have been the first to discover that Madoff could not have been hedging his customers accounts because the actual reported volume of trading in stock options was a small fraction of the trades that he alone was claiming.
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Their second largest holding is a small-cap miner that trades in the pink sheets called Avocet Mining.
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First off, the deal was successful and presently trades at a small premium even as the Treasury market showed weakness.
Eating about half those contracts in trades is a small price to pay in return for young talent to rebuild your talent base around.
Today, even small traders can do thousands of trades at pennies a share.
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In developing countries with immature financial markets, a freely floating exchange rate may not be sensible because a small number of foreign-exchange trades can cause big swings in currencies.
Virtual day traders' individual trades may be relatively small, but en masse day traders can make waves in the markets - but they risk being swamped by the same market forces such as a sudden drop in value.
They took orders from their customers, did the fiddly bits to actually make the trades happen and then took a small fee on every trade to pay themselves.
Therefore, a couple of option-buying strategies to consider would be straddles and pair trades on equity options in the small- and mid-cap space, which puts you in a position to profit from either upside or downside in the market over the next several weeks.
They used to enjoy a hidden subsidy on big trades from the high commissions charged to small traders.
The number of day traders, who each make a dozen to hundreds of trades daily hoping to tally lots of small scores on fast-moving stocks, has remained relatively stable at 75, 000 since the Nasdaq's heyday.
That leaves the Allianz ADR, which trades in dollars and pays dividends in dollars, for small U.S. investors avoiding the complications of currency conversion.
You either need a very long time horizon to buy a small amount or be an active trader that tests levels and takes trades quickly based on the headlines and price action.
In order to prevent the transactions from being flagged under insider-trading laws, the trades are split among hundreds, at times thousands, of small accounts.
Be pickier still for a fund that trades smallish over-the-counter stocks, unless the fund itself is very small.
The majority of investors are small traders and they are chum for the professionals that are on the other side of their trades at all major market turning points.
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