Dark Pools news from FierceFinance

The conventional wisdom since the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 has been that retail investors are staying out of the equity markets in part because they no longer trust that it is giving them a Read more...

Quantitative analysis (quantitative news) is the subject of a new book that's benefiting at least from sheer topicality. It's no secret that Wall Street was smitten with this new, modern approach to Read more...

Last November, the SEC proposed a set of regulatory changes regarding trading in "dark pools," with an emphasis on the use of IOIs (indications of interest) as a means of passing information to Read more...

"The rise of "pinging" Another new route likely to be taken by large investors is the use of immediate-or-cancel orders to "ping" potential counterparties. IOCs could be blindly sent to dark pools Read more...

This is a smart move: Nasdaq, Direct Edge and BATS have announced they will voluntarily end their flash order functionality, according to the AP. The announcement comes in the wake of SEC Read more...

The news that SEC chairwoman Linda Shapiro has asked staff to come up with a method to "eliminate the inequity that results from flash orders" focuses a much broader spotlight on the role of dark Read more...

A big story as of late is the lack of competition in trading, which has created huge opportunities for the broker-dealers that remain active in the market, such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. The Read more...

Bloomberg offers an interesting article that notes the big survivors on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase--are benefiting from a return to tradition in a few ways: Spreads Read more...