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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The explosion of trading in private company stock has drawn the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has already warned SecondMarket and SharePost, two platforms for trading in private stock, that they are being watched.
The American Stock Exchange immediately halted trading in the stock.
But the money on the exchanges is not made in listing and trading stock in companies.
In place of stock trading for a finance house he was now teaching stock trading, in classes he had organised and marketed via Eventbrite.
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These guys lost money day trading, in stock options, commodities, hedge funds you name it.
Bloomberg reported that secondary market trading in Facebook stock has been suspended for three days.
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My coverage ranges from the municipal and corporate bond markets to options trading in the stock market.
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Pricing will be fixed on Oct. 1, China's National Day, and trading in the stock kicks off on Oct. 5.
This could mean that sellers will assert themselves, leading to sideways-to-lower trading in the stock over the next several days.
The Singapore Exchange suspended trading in the stock for two years until August last year and referred the matter to government investigators for possible criminal offenses.
The narrow quoting band being discussed would fall within the circuit breaker limits put in place last month that suspend trading in a stock that moves 10% or more from its price.
More recently, the stock of the barely profitable construction company Leong Hin collapsed 90% over two days after the government investigated a brokerage in late April for unusual trading in the stock.
It was their trading in the stock of a large financial institution at a time when the SEC was running multiple investigations of the company that got referred to prosecutors, the report says.
Under the existing circuit breaker pilot, trading in a stock pauses across the U.S. equity markets for a five-minute period if the stock experiences a 10 percent change in price over the preceding five minutes.
Trading in the stock is currently halted.
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Sideways trading in the stock may be the best thing for potential Amazon.com traders and investors right now, as the weakness is allowing the stock to work off overbought conditions that would otherwise tend to impede further progress to the upside.
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The pause gives the markets the opportunity to attract new trading interest in an affected stock, establish a reasonable market price, and resume trading in a fair and orderly fashion.
M. exchange, had called each other frequently and begun trading heavily in Polycom stock.
Most of the trading in the Indian stock market takes place on its two stock exchanges: the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
He then tallies up the dollar value of those past and predicted earnings and compares it to the average daily trading volume in the stock, as measured in dollars, over the previous year.
Acquisitions are becoming increasingly complicated, as the failed Groupon deal and the sky-rocketing valuation of internet start-ups (in great part due to trading in private company stock through secondary markets) make clear.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's latest insider trading case includes the usual colorful elements--a corporate employee, suspiciously timed trading in the company stock, an offshore entity and assorted relatives allegedly benefiting from the fun.
While the stock traded off as much as 8% yesterday in trading in Europe, the stock is down less than 2%.
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Still, they are a small fraction of overall trading, accounting for 2.4% of all U.S. stock trading in June, according to Rosenblatt Securities.
But I did enjoy the ride back to the upper 50s, as analysts talked the stock down though I was trading in and out of the stock, always on the short side.
The employment contract of former Salomon Smith Barney telecom analyst Jack Grubman granted him compensation both for bringing in specific investment banking deals and for generating stock trading volume in the issues he covered, according to an attorney familiar with the document.
Education Ltd fell after a run-up in the stock prices in previous trading sessions.
In 1987, most stock trading was concentrated at the New York Stock Exchange, although futures and options were very much in the mix.
Regulators may also look into the technical glitches on the NASDAQ that disrupted early trading in Facebook's stock.
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