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Which form of social media do you check or use during the trading day?

Twitter

8%

Facebook

4%

LinkedIn

54%

None. Compliance prohibits or restricts the use of social media on the desk

33%

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Nomura Seeks Closer Integration With Instinet

Tokyo-based Nomura Group is more tightly integrating its Instinet subsidiary into the brokerage giant, and the company plans to rebrand its entire Japanese electronic trading platform as Instinet.

Deutsche Boerse Unveils Machine-Readable News Trading App

Deutsche Boerse on Monday launched a new trading application that helps traders access and utilize machine-readable news.

AX Launches Scheduled Auctions

In a twist on its call-auction process, electronic venue AX Trading Network is offering the ability to schedule an auction in advance, giving more parties a chance to participate, and hopefully to provide more liquidity.

Articles

Cover Story: Keeping Watch

Using sophisticated monitoring and analysis techniques, bulge bracket brokers are starting to build profiles of the traders in their dark pools. They know who's naughty and who's nice, and they are using their newfound information to shore up the integrity of their trading systems.

Electronic Trading Pushes Foward

Electronic trading is on the rise outside the United States and the Eurozone. Several countries, such as Japan and Brazil, are seeing their markets move into the electronic trading realm as investors seek higher investment returns abroad.

Adios Chicago

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, for competitive reasons and due to member demand, will move its primary options trading platform from Chicago to New Jersey in the fourth quarter.

Parallel Parking by PDQ SOR

Chicago-based alternative trading system operator PDQ introduced parallel order posting capability into its smart order router. Equity traders can now send passive orders to multiple venues, both lit and dark, simultaneously and have these orders automatically rebalanced when a portion of the initial order is filled.

New Algo Gets Parity at NYSE

A Chicago vendor has developed an algorithm that takes advantage of the special privileges of the New York Stock Exchange floor broker. The algo accesses liquidity on multiple trading venues, but when trading at NYSE Classic and NYSE Amex benefits from the exchanges' parity rules.

Big Draw: New ISE Policy Brings in Options Market Makers

The International Securities Exchange, in a bid to reverse an ongoing decline in its market share, is expanding the ranks of its market makers. In the past seven months, ISE has signed up five new market makers and expects to add "a couple more," according to exchange executives. From 20 market makers in July 2011, ISE now boasts 25.

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