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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 16, 2012 5:02 pm
The process of algorithmic trading has been debated by a wide number of experts in the financial sector in recent years, yet the debate is far from losing momentum – in fact, it’s hotting up thanks to the onset of [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 2, 2012 4:06 pm
When I grew up, a Jack-of-all-trades was an insult. Being a master of nothing was never going to get you anywhere. But times they are a-changing and if you look at any teenager today, they are constantly multitasking in a [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / April 23, 2012 11:30 pm
Nick Nielsen joined Marshall Wace LLP in 2008 and is head of trading in London. Prior to this, he was at Citadel Investment Group in London and Chicago. He started his career in high frequency trading at Goldman Sach’s Hull [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / April 3, 2012 1:59 pm
Check out this amazing new infographic from our friends at Asia Etrading charting the fascinating history of South Korea’s Capital Markets. Since 1949, when South Korea opened its first securities house the country has realized a remarkable change in its [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / February 7, 2012 3:22 pm
Doubts have been cast over the future of a Tobin tax on Europe’s financial markets after British prime minister David Cameron vetoed an EU treaty that would have included a financial transaction tax. The move has widely been welcomed by [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / November 16, 2011 12:06 pm
High-frequency trading (HFT) companies typically trade a huge volume of contracts operating on the tiniest of margins. This means even the smallest of price movements can essentially be make or break for business. This makes choosing the right technology an [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / November 3, 2011 12:41 pm
Landmines and automated mice are not necessarily the first things to spring to mind when contemplating the landscape of global trading – but they were part of the picture painted during the opening address at the TradeTech Architecture event held [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / November 2, 2011 12:00 am
Speaking at TradeTech Architecture in London, October 2011, Ian Pearl, Global Lead for Capital Markets at leading database management company Oracle speaks to The TradeTech Blog about why they’re not getting into the HFT game, the impotance and advantages of [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 28, 2011 4:52 pm
We are very excited to bring you this last post before the weekend, exclusive to the TradeTech Blog, written by David Hughes, Director of ATMonitor, the buy-side only trading intelligence service… The financial markets generally believe that the crisis in [...]
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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 [...]