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How Forex works and is it needed?

When it comes to stock market and exchange trading, first, what comes to mind for many people is forex. Really, advertising this type of investment (although such operations in this market can hardly be called) penetrated into many areas of our life - successful traders, who earn thousands of dollars in parallel with their main job or lying on the beach, look at us and from posters in subway cars, and from banners on the web. Meanwhile, everything is not so simple here.

NYSE TRW – Cars of the future: Smart car doesn't wait for help – NYSE TRW

For owners of electronic vehicle control systems (THAT) you will not envy. Don't bump into anyone, and anyone who wants to ram you. Nonetheless, DAS Producers' Shares Are Among the Growth Leaders on the New York Stock Exchange. For example, TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (Nyse: TRW) in a year have risen in price by 66% And, probably, will grow by another 20% during two months. Electronic vehicle control systems – smart car Of the control systems, the most pleasing is the collision warning. Such systems are available with and without automatic brakes.. Think, the future belongs to cars on autopilot.

Competitor Youtube – Netflix Inc (NFLX)

Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) going to stay on the sidelines compared to HBO in terms of subscribers, but this does not diminish her to increase the market value. Improving NFLX margins The company expects better margins in the 4th quarter based on higher revenue with stable costs. No new countries connecting, therefore, we are expecting an increase in the number of subscribers not by 2 million, as in the reporting quarter, but only on 1 million. To maintain profitability, the company needs to increase the number of subscribers by 6 million per year. Over the nine months of this year, the 7 million subscribers, and therefore we can expect an increase in profitability by the end of the year.

Hedge funds study the insides of a trader

The hedge fund industry is like sports, performance is everything. So after years of poor performance in an effort to improve their game, the industry increasingly turned to self-help programs., sometimes called thought products (mindware products). Coach Denise Schull in his office. Works on the study of unconscious influences on traders. To meet this demand, a new industry has emerged, in which statisticians track information about the results, and trainers and psychiatrists are working on, to help hedge fund managers make smarter decisions, making them talk about their personal stories and prejudices. The logic is this: if an athlete can resort to coaching, why not apply this to traders?

History of the appearance of options

An option is a contract, which is between the seller and the buyer of the option. This agreement grants the right, but not a duty, the buyer to sell or buy the underlying asset at a specified price and within a specified period of time. Person, selling option, is obliged to buy or sell the selected asset at a price, specified in the option. Actually, option is a very complex instrument. Person, whoever buys it must hit three targets at once: make the right choice of the underlying asset, predict which direction the price will go and how fast this movement will be. As for the underlying asset, then it can be a regular share, index, futures. Option type can be buy and sell (call and put respectively). Buying a call option, the trader is counting on the growth of the underlying asset. Buying a put option, the trader expects the price to fall.

HFT ECB Report on NASDAQ Market, NYSE

ECB published a study on the impact of HFT today (NASDAQ, NYSE) to financial markets. The main conclusion, in fact - HFT killed scalping. You can download it here: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1602.pdf The main findings are as follows: HFT makes markets more efficient, reducing pricing errors. If the regulators will wet the HFT, then the market efficiency will decrease, volatility will increase In times of strong market shifts, HFT can increase market volatility. In the overview, all price changes are divided into two types: permanent price changes pricing errors (noise) So HFT improves efficiency, when trading against noise. The noise level is reduced, the price becomes more efficient. But when HFTs start to play in the direction of large orders, they play in a permanent shift direction, and enhance the movement.

How to lose 465 million, Knight Capital report

This, perhaps, most painful bug report, which I have ever read. He colorfully describes the steps, which led to the loss 465 million dollars by Knight Capital due to software bug, which appeared last year and bankrupted the company. This report has all the characteristics of technical debt in a huge, deprived of support and running code base (the error occurred due to the execution of the code, which was not used by almost 9 years) and a terrible and sad story of interaction between software developers and IT professionals.

The sound of the NYSE opening

The Bell is one of the most recognizable features of the NYSE.. Opening Bell sounds every day at the opening of the stock exchange, and at closing - Closing Bell. Calls were entered in 1870 year together with the launch of continuous trading. Originally a Chinese gong was used, however in 1903 a year after the exchange moved to a new building, a copper bell was used. There is one large bell for each of the four shopping areas. Bells sound synchronously and are controlled under one control. Company G. S. Edwards made bells for the stock exchange 18 inches. In the late 80s, the NYSE decided to restore the existing bells and make another spare.. However, it turned out, that similar bells nor G. S. Edwards, no other companies produce. As a result, the G. S. Edwards decided to meet the exchange and fulfill the order, for which she attracted to its implementation, including some of the employees who left the company.

Twitter: Twitter investors rushed

On Friday, shares of a bankrupt Boston retailer, liquidated back in 2008 year, took off on 1800%, with less 1 cent per share to 15 cents due to confusion over Twitter's IPO announcement. Boston Tweeter shares traded under the symbol TWTRQ, but in Google Finance they appear as "TWTR Inc". Twitter announced, that their symbol would be TWTR, some investors rashly began to buy TWTRQ until FINRA stopped trading on Tweeter at about 684% growth "due to significant uncertainty".

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