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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 / 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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Kelly Hushin / October 24, 2011 6:56 pm
By Carson Dahlberg, CMT & Kirk Northington, CMT Special to the TradeTech Blog Volatility has been amazing to watch. Literally, volatility has been volatile. Vols are pumped like this summer. But, that’s here. How about Europe? And, are there any [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 14, 2011 3:11 pm
Direct from TradeTech Architecture in London last week we have the full and very interesting discussion around this hotly debated topic. The panellists and the moderator analyse and assess the different options to build a reliable long-term low cost consistent [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / August 31, 2011 12:30 pm
Since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) was implemented less than four years ago, the structure and environment of secondary market equity trading across Europe has been modified enormously. If investment firms are to navigate the ongoing regulatory change, [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / August 9, 2011 4:05 pm
As every good trader knows, data is the backbone of everything. From storage locations to transmission speed, even the type of wiring, can have an impact on your abilities on the trading floor, so getting the right data management and [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / July 8, 2011 12:00 am
As anyone who knows anything about High Frequency Trading knows that the difference of a microsecond can make all the difference to your success as a trader. More and more traders across the world are investing in technologies to bring [...]