ETFs / Indexes

  • Sep
  • 07
  • 2007
  • 9:43 AM

Another month, another volume record

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: ETFs / Indexes, Liffe derivatives, NYSE, Options

I'm sure you're shocked -- shocked! -- to see that trading volume on NYSE Euronext markets climbed to record levels again in August. Here's our news release on the subject. If you *are* surprised, you really oughtta call in more when you're on vacation.

Plus: bonus quiz -- who said the following?
"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit."
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
"Never follow the crowd."
Read on for the answer.

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  • Sep
  • 04
  • 2007
  • 8:09 AM

Back in the New York groove (well, not quite!); links for 4 Sept. 2007

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: ETFs / Indexes, Liffe derivatives, NYSE

Incentive-based pay for specialists; Liffe's new Guardian; commissions drop; more frequent short-interest reporting; hubris on Wall Street (on Wall Street? I'm shocked -- shocked!); skyrocketing data-message traffic; new ETFs; and on the historical-trivia front: first in film; welcome, Phone; and Abbie Hoffman pays us a visit.

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  • Aug
  • 14
  • 2007
  • 6:27 AM

Aphrodesiac for volatility; ETFs vs. NMS

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: ETFs / Indexes, NYSE

Rule change ticks off some traders; ETF providers take issue with Reg. NMS; and spelling counts.

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  • Aug
  • 01
  • 2007
  • 8:30 AM

System status via RSS; new GS Connect ETN; anatomy of a halt; trading views

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: ETFs / Indexes, NYSE

Every major trading firm on the Street has a trading floor that probably dwarfs or at least rivals the NYSE's in size. It's filled with people talking with customers, looking at screens, talking to other traders, using their judgment, taking risk, sending and executing orders -- in other words, trading. In particular, they work on the bigger, more difficult trades, the ones that are tough to do with machines alone. The people on the NYSE trading floor do the same things, except standing up instead of sitting down.

My point is that all those people in all those trading floors on the Street are adding value to customers, or they wouldn't be there. Ours are doing the same. And with their perseverance and the changes that are underway here, they'll continue to do so.

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  • Jul
  • 31
  • 2007
  • 9:51 AM

Luxury ETF; hola, FINRA; and debunking some mythinformation

By: Ray Pellecchia
File Under: ETFs / Indexes, NYSE

Plus, on this date in NYSE history: NYSE halts trading. For 4 1/2 months.

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