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The Flash Crash of 6th May

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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On the afternoon of May 6th 2010, the US stock market suddenly went completely crazy. In the space of about twenty minutes, the market first collapsed by about ten percent as the Dow Jones fell by almost a thousand points, then it rebounded to its previous levels, almost as if nothing had happened! During this [...]

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Draft Proposals Around High Frequency Trading

Monday, February 22, 2010

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High Frequency Trading has been in the news quite a bit recently. Just a few months ago, very few people apart from the players on Wall Street had ever even heard of high frequency trading. But now it’s the topic that anyone with an interest in the financial markets is talking about. So why has [...]

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