November 2014

By
Daniel P. Collins
Jeff Joseph
Reg NMS created a huge bifurcation in equity markets and while much of what has followed has been positive, in terms of lower fees and greater liquidity, many traders would like to see the market come back together.
By
Daniel P. Collins
Jeff Joseph
Reg NMS created a huge bifurcation in equity markets and while much of what has followed has been positive, in terms of lower fees and greater liquidity, many traders would like to see the market come back together.
By
Daniel P. Collins
One of the main problems with the current equity market structure that pushed Brad Katsuyama, global head of electronic sales and trading at RBC Capital Markets, to apply for a new exchange, ironically enough, is that there are too many trading venues.
By
Daniel P. Collins
Jeff Joseph
Katsuyama and his team at RBC devised smart order routing technology, Thor, which allowed an RBC order to hit different trading venues at the same time.
By
Scott E.D. Skyrm
In the world of high frequency electronic trading, rogue trading episodes don’t need to be initiated by an out-of-control trader or even on purpose.
By
Daniel P. Collins
November Editor's Note from Dan Collins.
By
Jeremy Wagner
The forex market has swung into action recently with big moves taking place in the U.S. dollar. After a period of historically low levels of volatility, these recent trends are music to the ears of momentum traders.
By
Dan Keegan
How can you play an imminent earnings announcement that would offer no surprises?
By
Steven K. Beckner
Higher interest rates are coming. The $64,000 question, as with all things market related, is timing.
By
Rich Nelson
While an expected record crop has pushed grain prices lower, it will take time to translate to livestock, and the dollar rally throws a wildcard into the demand picture.
By
Howard Simons
Simplicity should be sought in most things. So, ask yourself whether you should trade expected price movements in one market, such as the S&P 500, via an attribute, such as volatility.
By
Al Brooks
Support and resistance control all price action, and they are the basis for all trading. Here, we examine the intricacies of support and resistance in the context of price action trading.
By
Paul D. Cretien
Price trends and relative changes over time for gold and silver exchange-traded notes can provide clues to opportunities elsewhere.
By
Leslie K. Mcnew
Prices move in a series of peaks and troughs that create the market trend—this, in turn, has a significant affect on trader psychology.
By
Donny Lee
Price momentum is a phenomenon where past winning assets continue to perform well while past losing assets continue to perform poorly. Here, we’ll examine this concept with respect to trader habits.
By
Daniel P. Collins
Rodney Ngone spent more than a decade working at various institutional trading desks in Florida, New York and London before breaking out on his own to launch a short-term systematic trading program.
By
Leslie N. Masonson
Book review of "Excess Returns: A Comparative Study of the world’s greatest investors" by Leslie N. Masonson
By
Leslie N. Masonson
Book review of "Point & Figure Charting: The Essential Application for Forecasting and Tracking Market Prices (Fourth Edition)" by Leslie N. Masonson