Internet’s Down

Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud volumes for N. Virginia is down and they are having trouble launching new instances. Here’s the full text direct from the console: 10:38 AM PDT We are currently investigating degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. 11:11 AM PDTContinue reading “Internet’s Down”

A Novel Approach to High Frequency Trading

Interesting… HFT has proven to be singularly destructive. Despite the claims of it defenders, it does not increase market liquidity; it merely increases trading volumes without improving ease of execution. 60% of US stock market trading volume comes from HFT. HFT has undermined how markets operate. Institutional investors have diverted some of their trades toContinue reading “A Novel Approach to High Frequency Trading”