Articles & Information Of Interest

As traders, we run across information and perspectives that we find interesting and valuable to our business — and that we’re glad to share with other traders who visit our site. So check out the online resources below — and check back with us for new links that we will post from time to time.

Traders Magazine Commentary: How High Frequency Trading Benefits All Investors
Acting on the critics’ concerns and inhibiting high frequency trading would actually create the type of market reactions that the critics profess to be concerned about, causing considerable economic harm to individual investors, large institutions and, ultimately, to our nation’s economy.

An Overview Presentation Of The CME Group
A pdf from the CME covering the current status, trends and outlooks of the exchange. Page 44 shows the explosive growth of algorithmic trading over a one-year time frame.

The Alogrithmic Revolution
An article from Hedgeweek discussing the competitive advantages and growth of high-speed algo trading.

Tabb Group Research
An executive summary of US Futures Markets: In the Crosshairs of the Algorithmic Revolution, a 23-page report produced by the financial markets research and strategic advisory firm.

Aite Group Investment and Trading Research
Abstracts of the latest research on institutional securities and investments issues conducted by Aite Group, a leading research and advisory firm that focuses on the financial services industry.

RSJ Trading
The web site of the largest algo trading firm you've never heard of.

Trading Pit History
This web site is dedicated to chronicling the history of the trading pit, with an emphasis on the development of the arb hand signals used there.