• Jul
  • 01
  • 2009
  • 11:57 AM

Trading Volume Should Be Single-Counted

By: Jim Ross
File Under: MatchPoint

From Jim Ross: Our markets may support alternative models but they should not support alternative trade-reporting standards.

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  • Jul
  • 01
  • 2009
  • 10:53 AM

DOT's All, Folks! -- NYSE Replaces SuperDOT, Cutting Order-Execution Time to 5 Milliseconds from 105

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE Amex, NYSE Arca

NYSE customers are experiencing trade executions and reports within five milliseconds, as well as order and cancellation acknowledgments in just two milliseconds. "For the first time on NYSE, customers can employ the benefits of competitive speed and automation in addition to our longstanding value of high-touch price discovery on the only U.S. exchange cash equities trading floor," says Lou Pastina, executive VP of NYSE Operations.

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  • Jun
  • 30
  • 2009
  • 4:43 PM

NYSE Circuit-Breaker Levels for 3Q 2009

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE, NYSE Amex, NYSE Arca

As I always say, may we never need to consult these procedures, but here they are, just in case.

Hey, a trivia question: How many shareholders were there in the U.S. in 1952?
a) 650,000
b) 1 million
c) 6.5 million
d) 16 million

Read on for the circuit-breakers and the trivia answer.

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  • Jun
  • 26
  • 2009
  • 3:07 PM

'Inching Toward Dark Pool Reporting'

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE

"Without an absolute industry protocol, we're advocating doing what exchanges have been doing for a very long time: reporting single-counted matched-only volume," said Dave Johnsen, vice president for Sigma X business development at Goldman. "If everyone else puts themselves on the same metric, the dark-pool numbers will add up to 100 percent of dark-pool volume."

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  • Jun
  • 26
  • 2009
  • 8:27 AM

Russell Reconstitution Today

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: Indices, NYSE, NYSE Amex

After I've been nagging you for a week, today it's finally here: the annual reconstitution of the Russell indices, when hundreds of NYSE- and NYSE Amex-listed issues go in and out of the indices.

That also means today is the final installment in our little Great Russells in World History series. I've saved my personal favorite for last. Today's Great Russell is.....

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  • Jun
  • 25
  • 2009
  • 4:31 PM

Today's Great Russell in World History

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: Indices, NYSE, NYSE Amex

"The paradox arises in connection with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. Such a set, if it exists, will be a member of itself if and only if it is not a member of itself."

And you didn't think you were going to learn anything today!

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  • Jun
  • 25
  • 2009
  • 2:01 PM

Southwest Airlines Celebrates 38th Birthday at NYSE

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: Events

From Marisa Ricciardi: Southwest Airlines uses its birthday to highlight its new presence at LaGuardia Airport. Check out the video.

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  • Jun
  • 24
  • 2009
  • 5:14 PM

NYSE Euronext and Juniper Networks Plan Ultra-Low-Latency Network for Data Centers

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE Euronext

Expected to be operational in 2010, the new data centers will provide much greater network scale and efficiency, with plans to utilize Juniper’s Data Center Infrastructure Solutions and advanced data center fabric technology to support an unprecedented internal latency of 50 microseconds roundtrip.

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  • Jun
  • 24
  • 2009
  • 11:32 AM

New Data Platform Offers 10X Performance Boost, Plus Up To 80% Hardware Reduction

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: NYSE Technologies

Stephen S. Pawlowski, Intel Senior Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group Chief Technology Officer, Digital Enterprise Group and General Manager, Architecture and Planning said, “NYSE Technologies' Market Data Platform V5 with Data Fabric takes advantage of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based servers with Intel Quick Path Interconnect. The scalability and low latency of Market Data Platform V5 combined with the performance of the Intel Xeon processor further increases its capabilities as a market data platform. Together, Market Data Platform V5 dramatically reduces the server footprint in the data center to create a cost effective solution on industry standard hardware."

Plus: the countdown to Russell Friday continues, with another installment of Great Russells in World History.

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  • Jun
  • 24
  • 2009
  • 9:31 AM

Options Transaction Fees on a Diet

By: twilemon
File Under: NYSE Amex, NYSE Arca, Options

From Todd Wilemon: As of July 1, 2009, NYSE Options will no longer charge a facilitation fee to firms who facilitate their customer order flow. We are eliminating the fee for firm facilitation of customer orders. It’s going to zero. Yes, the price is FREE on both exchanges!

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