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Turquoise Talks: July 2010
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Thursday, 29 July 2010. Blowing Our own Trumpet. CESR has just published their Technical Advice on the MiFID Review - so I'll probably have something to say once I've digested the 162 pages. But in the meantime, here is the text of the Press Release we issued this morning. Turquoise number one MTF dark pool for second month running. July dark volumes show Turquoise extending lead ahead of competitors. Lit pool also showing steady growth – now 2nd largest MTF for majority of stocks listed. 8220;With growi...
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Turquoise Talks: June 2010
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Friday, 25 June 2010. I’m almost too tired to blog. Now you may ask “What on earth could leave Natan too tired to have an opinion? 8221; Well, I have just finished reading a sixteen page interview with the principals at Themis Trading. One again these self-proclaimed defenders of “fair markets” make dozens of claims about how exchanges, brokers and high-frequency traders are conniving to screw both retail and institutional investors. Here are some of my favourite excerpts:. 8220;The basic problem, in our...
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Turquoise Talks: Zero Sum Game?
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Friday, 29 July 2011. IOSCO, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, has set August 12th as the deadline for responses to its Consultation Report. 8220;Impact of Technological Changes on Market Integrity and Efficiency”. IOSCO’s input has a long term impact on the evolution of rules by national regulators, and in this instance IOSCO is responding to a specific request from the G20 and the Financial Stability Board. 8220; Market integrity. Refers to the ability of market participants to ...
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Turquoise Talks: November 2010
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Monday, 22 November 2010. IOSCO (the International Organization of Securities Commissions) recently published a Consultation Report titled “Issues Raised by Dark Liquidity”. And the ECON Committee of the European Parliament voted on 9 November to adopt a report intended to influence the MiFID review, with an emphasis on encouraging the use of pre-trade transparent venues. So how similar were the recommendations? First, the US practice of Flash Orders (which the SEC proposes to ban) probably contravene th...
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Turquoise Talks: The End of Time
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Monday, 13 June 2011. The End of Time. How have all these developments impacted Price-Time priority in our market? Most individual PLOBs operate with Price-Time priority (we’ll get to those that don’t a bit later), but the fact that there are more than one means that brokers need to calculate in which price-time queue the speedy execution their own limit orders is more certain. Where there are multiple venues with the same displayed price, how do brokers decide which ones to access? But as both brokers a...
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Turquoise Talks: October 2010
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Monday, 18 October 2010. The Fifteen Year ITCH. Here’s a quote from my previous (in fact, first) blog entry:. I repeat this to illustrate that the inclusion of OrderIDs in exchanges’ public data feeds was a response to participant demand. Dark pools aside, participants do expect exchanges and MTFs to provide this information. But, I also said then:. How does it work exactly? When an Order is first received, an OrderID is assigned to it, and both communicated back to the participant (in the acknowledgemen...
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Turquoise Talks: September 2010
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Thursday, 30 September 2010. HFT bashing by politicians and the media seems to be locked into a self-reinforcing cycle. The media cites growing concerns amongst politicians and public officials who in turn point to the media as evidence of public concern warranting intervention. There is lots of woolly thinking that ought to be challenged:. The fact that HFT firms are profitable (although less so of late according to the published results of several large players) does not necessarily mean that normal in...
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Turquoise Talks: July 2011
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Friday, 29 July 2011. IOSCO, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, has set August 12th as the deadline for responses to its Consultation Report. 8220;Impact of Technological Changes on Market Integrity and Efficiency”. IOSCO’s input has a long term impact on the evolution of rules by national regulators, and in this instance IOSCO is responding to a specific request from the G20 and the Financial Stability Board. 8220; Market integrity. Refers to the ability of market participants to ...
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Turquoise Talks: June 2011
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Monday, 13 June 2011. The End of Time. How have all these developments impacted Price-Time priority in our market? Most individual PLOBs operate with Price-Time priority (we’ll get to those that don’t a bit later), but the fact that there are more than one means that brokers need to calculate in which price-time queue the speedy execution their own limit orders is more certain. Where there are multiple venues with the same displayed price, how do brokers decide which ones to access? But as both brokers a...
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