Most brokers will hold the cash you get from the short sale in an account that earns no interest, unlike the big traders that get to earn interest...
The SEC specifically allows orders to be internalized as long as there is at least a 1c price (0.01 cents/share) price improvement. This is...
Can anyone explain why a Bank would lend Federal funds (excess reserves) to another Bank at 0.38% when they can just park it at the Fed and...
Note that the Federal Funds rate has not been below 0.25% in the last several years. It just went up to 0.50% in Dec. The Fed is paying 0.50% on...
If you are referring to GTC limit orders, I don't see how abolishing them reduces Trade through violations, since brokers will still offer GTC...
Good point. However, that would be a better scenario than the worst case one I mentioned since the likelihood of having to raise taxes would be...
US debt is not callable (no put option). The only options China has are : 1. Sell the US bond to someone else. 2. Wait till the US bond matures....
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You need to stop falling into the trap of collective guilt : Blaming individual Greek citizens for Greek Sovereign debt makes no more sense than...
In theory a consistently profitable stock is visible to everyone and would be bid up by the market until it no longer outperforms the broader...
Someone else suggested a simpler approach to just delay all cancel orders by 0.1 seconds : this way HFT programs couldn't pull their order in...
Can you give an example of how this could be abused ? Anyone placing a limit order would be free to place either type of limit order, so the...
A less intrusive way to keep HFT in check is to add a new type of limit order that cannot be cancelled in under 5 seconds. Lets call the new order...
The original story was about shorting stocks (NOT futures), so CFTC would not be involved.
The IBR provisions only apply to Federal student loans taken out after a certain date and also don't apply to private student loans : the latter...
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