There are few things more frustrating, metaphorically speaking, than seeing square pegs getting persistently hammered into round holes. It’s clear that the solution is wrong, but you nonetheless continue to see greater and greater force applied to the issue, until eventually, it’s realised that an...
Revolutions are proliferating. When you watch a revolution happening elsewhere, political or otherwise, it’s a good time to contemplate the revolution in your own history, or in your future. There are few among us that can’t point to one or the other. One of the common drivers is the fear...
The market frenzy that whiplashed global markets last week has been - unsurprisingly - blamed on high frequency trading. Headlines such as these fuelled the fire:
There have been some heated public debates recently about the kind of liquidity that is being provided by high frequency trading. In an earlier post on Tabb Forum Candyce Edelen from Propel Growth asks if HFTs provide liquidity or do they just provide volume?
Liquidity is bread and butter for...