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Dark Pools Drain Liquidity … (from the WSJ)

May 12th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Product Development

HT to Gong for this article from the WSJ. Boom in ‘Dark Pool’ Trading Networks Is Causing Headaches on Wall Street By SCOTT PATTERSON and AARON LUCCHETTI May 8, 2008 When Cheryl Cargie, head trader at Ariel Investments LLC in Chicago, decided last month to buy 1.3 million shares of a midcap stock listed on [...]

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Answering the Question: What Happens When Foresight Exchange Traders Get Bored?

October 16th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fun, Prediction Markets

This is from a recent conversation on FX-Discuss, where Foresight Exchange traders discuss potential contracts. Names have been removed to protect the guilty subject: fx-discuss: Human-robot marriage? First email: Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows. “My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction [...]

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