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Trading
High-frequency trading in the spotlight
Apr 1, 2014
'Moneyball' author says HFT traders skim away others' profits
Momentum stocks slowed down in March
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Noel King
Mar 28, 2014
Stocks for trendy companies slowed down significantly in March
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War of the Wall Street robots
by
Queena Kim
Feb 21, 2014
The high-speed trading world is run by algorithms and computers.
Fantasy trading site allows users to 'play' the stock market
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Molly Wood
Jul 11, 2013
Players are signing up for Wall Street Magnate in droves, in part, because the simulated experience reflects the stock market in real time.
Astrology guides some financial traders
Sep 19, 2012
When the moon is in the seventh house, what’s a Wall Street trader to do? Pay some $300 for a financial astrology newsletter -- to go with stock charts.
Oil prices slide, and the search for an explanation is on
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Adriene Hill
Sep 18, 2012
When oil prices fell sharply, the search for an explanation became almost as big a story as the slide itself. Unexplained fluctuations in markets have begun to reveal the anxiety left behind by 2008's financial crisis.
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Stock trading glitch spooks investors again
Aug 2, 2012
Knight Capital’s faulty software sent trading haywire and could sink the brokerage firm. Is technology helping or hurting investor confidence?
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JPMorgan discloses $4.4 billion in trading losses
Jul 13, 2012
JPMorgan Chase has just released its quarterly earnings report, and the big number to report is: $4.4 billion. That's the new estimate for the size of JPMorgan's loss from risky trading bets.
High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
May 21, 2012
Commentator Dave Lauer worked in high-frequency trading until he had a crisis of conscience.
Really quick trades
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John Moe
Oct 20, 2011
The inventor of automated trading, Thomas Peterffy, wants to scale back on high speed trading. He says it makes volatile markets worse, because...