Opinions

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  Greg MacSweeney
  Quants Are Taking the Fun Out of Investing
  Quants are Wall Street's version of the highly-efficient and near emotionless NFL scoring machine: the New England Patriots.
• Messaging Delays A Major Worry For Traders, Brokerages
  Most brokers have stated that exchanges — large and small, new and established — have had problems at various times either processing the number of orders received or handling the various messages that are sent back and forth between market participants.
• Hot Labor Market Leaves Firms Searching for Quants
  What do CNN talking head Lou Dobbs and the financial industry have in common?
• Deja Vu for Bond Exchanges
  With Archipelago announcing in October that it's going to trade listed corporate bonds on its electronic trading system, electronic bond trading systems providers might be a little nervous.
• Brokering Deals With Exchanges
  Hot cakes, get your hot cakes! CEOs of regional stock exchanges might as well be standing on a street corner hawking Philly cheese steaks or Boston funnel cakes judging from the recent flurry of deals with brokers.

Blog

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  Gregory MacSweeney
  Low-Latency Not Required: Trading Stock for Food The famous New York steakhouse Smith & Wollensky's is allowing patrons to trade stock for ...
• Algos Gone Wild (video)
• Volatility Falls to Pre-Lehman Lows
• FBI May Be Eyeing SAC Capital
• Lawmakers' Insider Advantage to Trading
• Fed Is Looking For a Few Good Traders

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