Recently added articles from Traders:
Speed Merchants.(Letter From the Editor)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Byline: Michael Scotti, Editorial Director Baseball hall-of-famer Satchel Paige once said his teammate James "Cool Papa" Bell was so fast, he could turn off the lights and be in bed "before the room got dark." An exaggeration, of course, but just think if the legendary speedster ...
The Race to Zero; Industry in drive to reduce latency of Trading Infrastructure.(Cover Story)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Byline: Peter Chapman The blink of an eye is an eternity. At least it is these days on Wall Street. It takes 400 milliseconds, or four-tenths of a second, to blink-and that's far too long for an increasing number of traders. Black box traders, direct market access ...
Aqua Looks to Make Mark in Crossing; An ATS builds a base with hard-to-trade Stocks.(Feature)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nina Mehta Is there room for another crossing system? The answer appears to be yes. A year and a half after Aqua Securities printed its first trade-in April 2008-the startup platform is nudging its way into buyside firms, enabling them to interact electronically with ...
Bernstein's New Frontiers.(Brokerage)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Byline: James Ramage As long as times keep changing, the idea of reinvention will always be in style. One has to adapt to stay competitive in a cutthroat world. This is true for pop stars, politicians and yes, even brokerages. The traders at 42-year-old Sanford C. Bernstein have ...
Ted's Heat Map.(Buyside Snapshot)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Byline: James Ramage Over the past eight years, Lord Abbett & Co. has embraced electronic trading with an almost religious fervor. In 2001, the firm executed less than 1 percent of its orders electronically. By 2006, the figure jumped to just over half. Today, Lord ...