Wall Street players have lately expressed concern that too much regulation of high-speed trading could crimp markets.
Or look at the world of high speed trading where millions of dollars balance on milliseconds of timing.
High-speed trading has chased nearly every distortion out of the market, other than the ones created by traders themselves.
Beyond the official scrutiny lies a tussle among exchanges for market share as high-speed trading becomes a central cog of the market.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an in-depth study of issues surrounding high-speed trading and is considering several proposals to monitor it.
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Although the financial industry likes to think of itself as a technology leader, outside high-speed trading it frequently lags behind other industries, said a regulator.
High-speed trading has made the financial world even more of a casino game, allowing traders to pick off minuscule price movements in just thousandths of a second.
The U.S. stock market "is the most dynamic and efficient market in the world, " Chris Concannon, executive vice president of Virtu Financial LLC, a New York high-speed trading firm, will tell the Senate panel, according to his prepared testimony.
Now it is always speed trading.
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He also cofounded the seed investing firm Founder Collective and has worked at Bessemer Venture Partners and at a high speed options trading firm.
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Now it's become an obsession of the financial industry, to serve the needs of high-speed automated trading, where computers arbitrage based on knowing the market news an extra millisecond in advance.
In 2005 Lankford ditched a comfortable salary, hired away an engineer from Reuters and went hunting for consulting gigs optimizing speed performance for trading firms and hardware vendors.
As trading speed accelerated, investors' time horizons shrank.
Later, Mr. Lauer, with several other Citadel traders, moved to the high-speed Chicago firm Allston Trading.
But the New York Times report will likely cause even more uncertainty in the market because of the speed with which the trading losses appear to have increased.
Advertisements stress the reliability and speed of Daishin's trading system.
Regulators in England, as well as in the U.S., are concerned that with the increasing speed and complexity of hedge fund trading, the system will be unable to keep up.
By comparison, in high frequency trading, they want speed first and they are willing to live with whatever the power draw is in that co-location center if it gives them an edge.
The major averages paused a bit midday on an unexpected drop in pending home sales, but gained speed in the last couple hours of trading.
"The US economy just hit a major speed bump, " said Marcus Bullus, trading director at MB Capital in London.
McCain also criticized Mr. Cox for eliminating a trading rule that acted as a speed bump to prevent short-seller from pounding a stock.
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The dominance of short-termism is evidenced by the magnitude of institutional stock "renting" for terms of 12 months or less, the volume of high-speed, high-frequency algorithmic short-term trading, the short average tenures of chief executive officers and the dominance of executive compensation tied solely to short-term results.
Some trading firms measure their competitiveness by the speed in which they can connect to financial exchanges and complete transactions, and even at the speed of light that data travels along the glass of fiber optic lines, locating even a few miles closer to the exchange could provide an edge.
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To speed this along, her firm has launched an Internet-based scheme for trading large quantities of water among towns, farmers and others with water rights.
The speed and efficiency of the Equiduct model, specially designed for high-frequency trading of equities in the fragmented European market, is attracting institutions and bringing new players onto the market, says Fischer.
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Warhol prided himself on speed of execution and approximated that of one of today's electronic-options trading houses. (I'm exaggerating.) I bought this piece in the early '80s and used it as our corporate logo.
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