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Leave it boomers to flout one of the long-held rules of retirement planning. Afraid lawmakers will soon lift the retirement age of Social Security or shrink benefits, many are ignoring the traditional advice of financial planners and retirement experts everywhere and taking their benefits as soon as possible. Are they right to rebel? The number of Americans opting to take Social Security at 62 -- currently the youngest age allowed -- is on the rise. In 2009, 42% of 62-year-olds claimed benefits, up from 38% in 2007, according to economists at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. And while more recent data is not yet available, financial planners and industry experts say the ranks of early claimers are still growing.
High-frequency trading, long an obscure corner of the market, has leapt into the spotlight this year. Wildly successful in 2008, high-frequency traders are the talk of Wall Street, attracting big bucks and some unwanted attention. Concerns that some traders are taking advantage of less fleet-footed investors has drawn the attention of regulators and members of Congress.
What's Behind High-Frequency Trading - WSJ.com
High-Frequency Trading - The New York Times
Updated: Oct. 10, 2011 Computerized trading of stocks first became a significant part of the Wall Street scene in the 1980s, when it was blamed for exacerbating the market plunges in October 1987. Since then, the computers involved have grown vastly more powerful and the algorithms that guide their trading vastly more sophisticated. For years, high-frequency trading firms have operated in the shadows, often far from Wall Street, trading stocks at warp speed and reaping billions while criticism rose that they were damaging markets and hurting ordinary investors.
High Frequency Trading News & Resources | High Frequency Traders
April 30, 2012 09:36 AM BT have announced a new addition to its BT Radianz Cloud portfolio and enhancements to its BT Radianz Proximity services that will extend the footprint of its hosting capabilities at non-BT datacentres ten-fold and provide lowest optimal latency between trading venues. FSMLabs® today announced that TimeKeeper™, its groundbreaking time management software for high-speed trading and extreme time-critical applications, now runs on the Arista 7124sx and other Arista Networks switches. April 24, 2012 10:22 AM Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading supplier of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of Elektron hosting and managed services in Brazil. The new service, situated in close proximity to the BM&F BOVESPA exchange, will provide trading firms with cost effective, low latency access to the real-time data required to fuel algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies in Brazil.How Speed Traders Are Changing Wall Street - 60 Minutes - CBS News
It may surprise you to learn that most of the stock trades in the U.S. are no longer being made by human beings, but by robot computers capable of buying and selling thousands of different securities in the time it takes you to blink an eye. These supercomputers - which actually decide which stocks to buy and sell - are operating on highly secret instructions programmed into them by math wizards who may or may not know anything about the value of the companies that are being traded. It's known as "high frequency trading," a phenomenon that's swept over much of Wall Street in the past few years and played a supporting role in the mini market crash last spring that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge 600 points in 15 minutes. Most people outside of the industry know very little, if anything, about it.
Goldman's $4 Billion High Frequency Trading Wildcard
A recent story in Advanced Trading goes after some of the minutae of High Frequency Trading and provides a glimpse of the total value that HFT may provide to behemoth PT powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs. The article presents a very valuable perspective on just why HFT is so critical these days, especially when cash traders go for 6 hour Starbucks breaks between 10 am and 3:30 pm: "high frequency trading firms, which represent approximately 2% of the 20,000 or so trading firms operating in the US markets today, account for 73% of all US equity trading volume. These companies include proprietary trading desks for a small number of major investment banks, less than 100 of the most sophisticated hedge funds and hundreds of the most secretive prop shops, all of which operate with one thing in mind—capture profit opportunities by being smarter and faster than the closest competition."
High Frequency Trading
As I sit here looking out over the nearly 2 feet of snow (~61 cm) that recently blanketed coastal Massachusetts I was inspired to write my third installation in my series on advanced trading. The snow triggered a strange thought about trading and investment classifications. In this post I am going to cover high frequency trading. Rarely have I seen a practice as universally misunderstood as high frequency trading. People seem to misuse the term high frequency trading in much the same way that the term hedge fund was misused in the past.
Man Vs. Machine: Pros and Cons of High-Speed Trading - CNBC
More than half of all US stock trades made each day are the result of high-frequency trading. Regulators are trying to figure out whether this form of high-speed buying and selling contributed to the May 6 "flash crash," in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points in less than an hour, before recovering. What Is It?Automated Trading: Pros and Cons | Stock Assault Reviewed
As a trader you can choose between doing the analysis and monitoring of stocks yourself or having this taken care of by an automated trading system. This article explains some of the pros and cons of using stock picking software to assist you in your trading. Pros: