Whether looking at the nineteenth century or now, Wall Street has always had fast traders who knew how to get the news before their competitors.…
Throwback Thursday: When Wall Street Trading Was Slower
#TBT: Today we look back to how we used to trade stocks. Slower Trades Our story (sort of) starts 225 years ago on Wall Street with the origin of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Gathering in coffe…
What Tweets Can Say About the Dow
Researchers are exploring how message volume and sentiment analysis in social media like Twitter and Yahoo can be used to predict financial markets.…
Stock Markets: High Speed Trading
High frequency trading might be an elephant in the closet. Representing perhaps 51% of all daily trading volume, speedy trading hits the headlines only when something goes wrong. But since I’ve …
Stock Markets: Should Wall Street Slow Down?
Soon after the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) opened yesterday, the prices of more than 140 securities moved irrationally. Some were up 150%. Though no one yet has said why, we do know that fast tradi…
Orderly Markets
No one has figured out the cause of the “flash crash”. Some background information might help, though, when we try to understand what happened. On May 6th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average…