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Hazards of high frequency trading under focus

12 August 2010

The fragmentation of US stock trading across 50 venues dominated by computerized traders is hurting investors, say executives

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The crash in the Dow Jones Index on May 6th has underlined how the fragmentation of US stock trading across 50 venues dominated by computerized traders is hurting investors, say executives from Invesco and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp in a Bloomberg report.

Kevin Cronin, director of global equity trading at Invesco, and Chris Nagy, managing director of order routing sales and strategy at TD Ameritrade, called for improved regulations for...


 

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