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Databases in Hard Real Time
McObject launches true real-time deterministic database for embOS Real Time Operating System applications […]
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High Frequency Trading and the UK Government’s Whitewash
The UK Government’s Foresight Project has just announced the results of its two-year investigation into electronic trading and markets. And the good news for hedgies is that they’ve decided that high-frequency trading is mostly safe! […]
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Taxation To Slow Down High-Frequency Speculation While Not Affecting Hedging Activity
The Tobin (or Robin Hood) Tax was proposed decades ago by the eponymous Nobel Laureate (that’s James Tobin, not Robin Hood) as a means of stabilizing currencies via a small tax on all transactions. Every […]
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High-frequency Trading: Where are we and how did we get here?
“The truth is the high-frequency traders create volatility and create liquidity,” said John Damgard, president of the Futures Industry Association. What he apparently meant to say was that they reduce volatility, not create it. And […]