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Algos trap rogue traders

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Algorithmic trading has traditionally been linked to trading orders and developing investment strategies - but the technology is now gaining traction as a way to catch white collar crime. According to John Bates, founder and general manager of Progress ...

Bravura becomes a prime buy target

... Capital, GBST, DSTi and Perpetual named among the likely buyers. Bravura filed a request with the ASX this week to suspend trading of its shares "following the receipt of confidential approaches from certain parties in relation to a potential corporate ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... potentially could target - where their risk was identical - was much better than the existing one they had." Currency trading is not new. But Davey said that for a market that trades trillions of dollars a day, investors use it largely for hedging rather ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... Each tw- hour session begins with a 20 minute presentation which reviews the CFA Code of Ethics and examines ASIC insider trading and fraud case studies. Participants then gather in small groups and debate six to eight hypothetical case studies which ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... high-tech Nasdaq index was up more than one per cent. In London, base metals were down. There was little clue from futures trading in Sydney, either. On the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index at 0732 AEST was up two points at 5481. There ...

Macq joins Charles River FIX network

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... interface will allow Charles River Investment Management System clients to achieve better than market pricing and improve trading performance while maintaining complete control of the execution process," said Cameron Field, managing director of Charles ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract declined 34 points to 5657 on 10,641 contracts. CMC Markets head of trading James Foulsham said the market had received a flat lead from Wall Street overnight. "We didn't see much of a lead out of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.18 per cent to a five-week closing high as higher oil and metals prices boosted trading houses such as Mitsui and other resource firms. The Nikkei added 157.01 points to 13,450.23, its highest close since February ...

JV eases Opes Prime woes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... process will be smooth and quick. "Trader Dealer is a perfect fit for existing MDS clientele who use our market data and trading tools such as the Bourse and Market Analyser," he said. Established in 2005, MDS Financial provides education, online stock ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... a yield not seen since the disinflation scare of 2003. But not even the Fed's new TSFL program could stop broad market trading liquidity declining with Citi's US Rate Liquidity Index more than 50 per cent higher (worse) than during the long term capital ...