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Dan Mellins-Cohen / February 17, 2012 4:50 pm
As literally everyone who deals with derivatives will know by now is that the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) makes no sense grammatically, but has nonetheless been agreed by the all-seeing druids of the European Commission. The intentions seem laudable [...]
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Kelly Hushin / January 5, 2012 4:22 pm
by Carson Dahlberg, CMT Special to the TradeTech Blog I am writing this on 12.29.2011 during Thursday’s regularly scheduled session. There are few interesting things lining up that I have observed worth sharing about gold. These line up the odds [...]
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Kelly Hushin / November 11, 2011 9:21 pm
This week stocks were up and down over the crisis in Europe, particularly Italy. Right before its collapse, MF Global dumped European debt at a loss, which unfortunately didn’t help. In other news, after a high IPO, Groupon is being [...]
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Kelly Hushin / November 4, 2011 9:02 pm
The financial world has been anything but boring lately, even for consumers who may not follow with as much careful attention as we naturally do. Unfortunately the more attention we’re getting, the more likely it is that turmoil and volatility [...]
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Kelly Hushin / October 31, 2011 6:42 pm
By Carson Dahlberg, CMT Special to the TradeTech Blog We are at a major inflection point. Major. Currently, we are at multi time framed resistance, near 1250. The very good news, is that once a trend begins, you’ll have great [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 26, 2011 10:02 am
Just back from a two week trip around Asia and Australia that took in dark pool seminars in Hong Kong and Singapore and attendance at the FPL conference in Sydney. In my absence, it seems like the Eurocrats in Brussels [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 21, 2011 4:42 pm
It’s been two years in the making, with speculation, hearsay, leaks and lobbying-a-plenty, but finally the MiFID II proposal has now been published by the European Commission. What a shame, then, that its arrival has been met more with a [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 10, 2011 5:08 pm
EU Sees Coordinated Action on Bank Capital Business Week Shares up on euro bank plan hopes BBC High-street banks attacked over account switching policy The Independent Investment banks need ethics as well as a desire to make money The Telegraph [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 5, 2011 9:00 am
With the ‘big reveal’ of MiFID II imminent, firms that make use of HFT are preparing to make an aggressive push into the European options markets thanks to the new trading platforms the regulation will create, according to a new [...]
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Kelly Hushin / October 1, 2011 4:24 pm
This week in our TradeTech Blog Top Headlines, we see more European crisis analysis, SGX & LSE tying up for London Metal Exchange bid, US banks charging fees for using debit cards (the horror!) and a happy, (hopeful?) wave goodbye [...]