The Market – Page 14

San Francisco, city of myths – are any true? – SFGate

Some urban stories turn out to be true. Here’s one you hear all the time: San Francisco has more dogs than children. That’s no myth. The census estimates that 20 percent of the city’s population – or about 161,975 people – are younger than 18. The SPCA estimates that the city has approximately 178,000 dogs.Continue reading “San Francisco, city of myths – are any true? – SFGate”

Global Temperature Anomaly for 2012 (Jan-Dec) to be 0.50 or more – Intrade

The smart money says there will be an increase in global average temperature next year. It seems guaranteed that said increase will be at least one half degree in temperature. Intrade – Global Temperature Anomaly for 2012 (Jan-Dec) to be 0.50 or more.

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”

Four Percent of all NASDAQ Trades Last Week Attributed to Single Mystery Algorithm; Robo-trader Consumed 10% of Network Bandwidth

I thought we’d have another decade or two until the machines took over. The scariest part of this single program was that its millions of quotes accounted for 10 percent of the bandwidth that is allowed for trading on any given day, according to Nanex. (The size of the bandwidth pipe is determined by aContinue reading “Four Percent of all NASDAQ Trades Last Week Attributed to Single Mystery Algorithm; Robo-trader Consumed 10% of Network Bandwidth”