Off Topic with Irene Aldridge Alpha Pages: You took great issue with Michael Lewis’ claim that the market is “rigged.” Why? Irene Aldridge: On the Michael Lewis topic, I suppose I am most disappointed in the pay-for-play quality of the book. Even the fastest best-selling writers can tell you that they are only capable of writing 15 pages per day, at best. To write a 300-page book, [is] a five-month process, at ...
Senate Panel Probing High-Frequency Trading Talks To 'Flash Boys' A Senate panel probing high-frequency trading on Wall Street has spoken to the people behind IEX, the upstart trading venue prominently featured in Michael Lewis' book Flash Boys, Politico reported on Monday. ...
Amazon Stock Reversal Signals – June 9, 2014 Amazon stock has been in a steady downtrend for the past four months but it appears that reversal signals are popping up. Price has started to break above the 50 SMA, which has served as a dynamic resistance for the pair since February. A strong breakout candle has already closed above this moving average, suggesting that more gains are in the cards. However, price has yet to break above ...
Basics of Online Stock Trading In recent years, positive trends in consumer credit activities have helped create major shifts in the tendency to place retail investment trades online, rather than on the floor of a traditional stock exchange. There is a wide variety of ways to start doing this. Already, there is a large and growing number of regulated brokers that offer access to all of the major asset classes with trading platforms that can be managed through PCs and mobile ...
Total new capital expenditure in Australia was down a seasonally adjusted 4.2 percent on quarter in the first quarter of 2014, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday - coming in at A$37.076 billion. More...