They also describe two other big factors in markets: trading volume and the size of mutual funds.
If JP was recording the position value of each tick of the trading day, the size of the array would quickly exceed the memory limits of most computers in a short amount of time.
Remember that sound money management means reducing your position size proportionately when trading leveraged exchange-traded funds.
Good size hedge funds and proprietary trading firms may be qualified participants.
An entire trading floor crammed into a suitcase-size computer: That's the future of exchanges, and Nasdaq was there first, having been all-electronic--floorless, that is--since its inception in 1971.
What looked to be a frightening rout was transformed suddenly and without the slightest advance warning into a huge rally as hundreds upon hundreds of gigantic buy orders, all 1 million shares or more in size, poured into electronic trading systems at Credit Suisse and several other major trading firms.
The first step in managing lending and trading risks is to collect data on the frequency and size of past losses.
The trading room itself is a low-ceilinged affair about the size of an average living room, with 13 computers lined up along three walls.
We have agreed to address a set of next-generation trade issues, including removing frictions in the global supply chains, helping small and medium-size enterprises grow and better plug into the global trading system, and adopting smart, market-oriented innovation policies.
The SEC said the timing and size of the trades were highly suspicious given the account had no history of trading in Heinz securities in the last six months.
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Apache is trading fractionally lower on the news, which is common for acquirers on a deal of this size.
Over the past few years many of the small-cap trading desks that made markets in Bulletin Board issues have been shut down or drastically reduced in size, including those run by Goldman Sachs (which bought Spear Leeds, the NYSE market specialist firm, in late 2000), Sherwood Securities and Fleet Securities.
That is astonishing to think that a company the width and size of Apple can make such large gains, even when taking into account that they are trading at such high numbers.
ISE's system eliminates the fees that a market-maker would charge and doesn't place size limits on trade blocks, making it appealing to the growing number of hedge funds and proprietary trading desks that use computer algorithms to send orders through an exchange.
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