Jul 3 – Cris Sheridan, Senior Editor of Financial Sense, welcomes Dave Lauer, President & Managing Partner at KOR Group LLC. A substantial amount of trading is done every day off-exchanges in what are referred to as “dark pools”.
We are at a crucial juncture in the history of the financial markets: Technology and deregulation have wiped out the floor-based monopolies of the past and replaced them with an incredible new system for transacting securities.
Statistics is a funny field – you can generally construct well-reasoned, well-supported arguments on both sides of an issue. I have found a paucity of independent, objective writing on the subject of market quality, and recently found myself researching what studies have been performed.
Apr 18 – Jim welcomes back Dave Lauer, a Market Structure, and Technology Architecture Consultant. His most recent work includes public policy with Better Markets and technology architecture with IEX, a new equity market. Previously, he worked as...
There is no doubt anymore that our modern market structure has problems. Nobody with a fully functioning frontal lobe will tell you that it doesn't. Still, as obvious as it is that things are broken, many of us disagree on exactly what is broken and how to go about fixing it.
Nov 8 – Jim is pleased to welcome Dave Lauer, a market structure and high-frequency trading consultant to IEX Group. Dave recently testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs as to the dangers of...
Finance experts apparently have no idea just exactly what High-Frequency Trading is. If they did, they would not conflate this practice with the computer revolution that has swept Wall St.
