News tagged with stock trades
Relativistic trading: The speed of light isn't fast enough for some market transactions
The profit made on a stock share bought and sold a moment later might only be a penny or so, but if multiplied by millions of shares over the course of a day the money earned can be big.
Nov 13, 2010 |
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Algorithmic trading to replace humans in the stock market
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UK Government’s Foresight panel, led by Dame Clara Furse, has released a working paper that points out that algorithmic trading, or high frequency trading, will soon replace human decision making when it comes to the stock ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Investors driven by emotion, not facts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals investing in stocks let their emotions guide them more than facts, often to their financial detriment, a new UC Davis study finds.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Physics could help financial traders
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, this concept is proving even truer in the world of stock trading. In a world where buying low and selling ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Nasdaq hackers target service for corporate boards
(AP) -- Hackers broke into a Nasdaq service that handles confidential communications for some 300 corporations, the company said Saturday - the latest vulnerability exposed in the computer systems Wall Street ...
Feb 06, 2011 |
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Millionths of a second can cost millions of dollars: A new way to track network delays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds—delays that can lead to multi-million ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Where are Facebook's friends? Stock slide deepens (Update)
(AP) -- Facebook's newly public stock is sliding further on its third trading day as investors reconsider how much the social network is worth.
May 22, 2012 |
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Where are Facebook's friends? Stock down after IPO (Update)
(AP) -- Facebook's stock is tumbling well below its $38 IPO price in the social network's second day of trading as a public company on Monday.
May 21, 2012 |
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Nasdaq glitch confuses investors of Facebook IPO
(AP) -- Some investors who thought they had bought Facebook shares at the opening of trading were left without knowing for hours whether they had received the shares.
May 19, 2012 |
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The wisdom of retail traders: Study shows retail investors can predict future stock returns
A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Finance by Professor Paul Tetlock, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, and Eric Kelley, Assistant Professor, Finance, the Eller College of Man ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Buy-sell orders can predict market's performance
Investors may have access to a process similar to one used by racetrack bettors that could make playing the financial markets substantially less risky.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Megaupload founder joked about his 'hacker' past
(AP) -- Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbors in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Angie's List stock rises in first trading day
(AP) -- The stock of consumer-reviews site Angie's List Inc. increased 16 percent on its first day of trading Thursday, showing ongoing investor appetite for Internet companies.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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NYSE site hobbled by outages, firm reports
(AP) -- The New York Stock Exchange's website was apparently hobbled twice Monday, possibly the result of computer attacks as part of the anti-Wall Street protests, according to a company that monitors website response times.
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Hedge funds sold stocks quickly while mutual fund investors suffered larger losses during crisis
A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Aug 25, 2011 |
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