Posted by 11 October 2008

Should the NYSE Bring Back Program Trading Curbs?

While reading an article “Stocks: Time to Slow Things Down?” it occurred to me that I haven’t seen “curbs in” on CNBC in a long time. After a quick search I discovered that the NYSE scrapped curbs back in November 2007 (emphasis is mine): The NYSE formerly implemented a curb on program trading whenever the [...]

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Posted by 21 April 2005

Bulls Come Back Swinging

We’ve certainly had some violent moves over the last week or so. I can’t remember when the last time I saw the Dow up over 200 points. We even got close to having the trading curbs kick in. So it was clearly a good day for the bulls but to hear all the excitement on [...]

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