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Goldman: Pwned?
Oh oh..... Insane major props to Zerohedge on this one ! Back-up : This week's NYSE Program Trading report was very odd : not only because program trading hit 48.6% of all NYSE trading, a record high at least since the NYSE keep tabs of this data, and a data point which in ...
Is A Case Of Quant Trading Sabotage About To Destroy Goldman Sachs?
Is A Case Of Quant Trading Sabotage About To Destroy Goldman Sachs?
zerohedge.blogspot.com — Major developing story: Matt Goldstein over at Reuters may have just broken a story that could spell... doom for if not the entire Goldman Sachs program trading group, then at least those who deal with "low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data ... (more) Is A Case Of Quant Trading Sabotage About To Destroy ...
NYSE Halts Transparency, Feels Goldman Program Trading Disclosure Is Unnecessary
zerohedge.blogspot.com — In a move set to infuriate and send many Zero Hedge readers over the top, the NYSE... has taken action to make sure that nobody will henceforth be able to keep track of the complete dominance that Goldman Sachs exerts over the New York Stock Exchange. ... (more) NYSE Halts Transparency, Feels Goldman Program Trading ...
King Report: HFT
ritholtz.com — > For the past several years Street operators have assumed that the computer jockeys who were being... employed by proprietary trading departments on The Street were developing algorithms that would find other algorithms that represented buyside ... (more) King Report: HFT
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Goldman Trader Traitor
Bear Mountain Bull — ... and Market Ticker . While most in the United States were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing secret computer trading codes from a major New York-based financial institution. Authorities did not identify the firm, but sources say that institution is none other than Goldman Sachs. The charges, if proven, are significant because the codes that the accused, Sergey Aleynikov, tried to steal are the secret sauce to Goldman’s automated stock and commodities trading business. Federal ...

TBTF-Theory Not Reflected in History Books
The Prudent Investor — ... ago, Lehman Brothers, litter the road of economic disaster. Find a timeline of most recent TBTF events here. This series may be continued with Goldman Sachs. At least there is no historical precedent saying otherwise and the TBTF discussion has just been given a new breather by Zerohedge's refreshing spate of documents, with an interesting answer by Kid Dynamite. As Reuters blogs/commentaries have started the timeline also eagerly documented by Karl Denninger, who served blogosphere more Goldman chutney on Monday, I may add that they ...

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