Archive for October 28th, 2009

Some companies are running out of shares for their employee stock purchase plans.

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Some Stock Plans See Scant Supply

Even as investment managers have grown more conservative, the giant swathe of the world labeled “emerging markets” is graduating to the big league, fundamentally changing the calculation of risk in portfolios.

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Investment Paradigm Shifts

In today’s market, a trader’s problems change as quickly as he or she can solve them, which is why having a rule-based strategy is more important than ever, says Mike Baghdady. In addition to trying to make correct trading decisions, new issues have arisen that we must attend to such as anonymity to protect our orders from negative selection and executing our orders with the least possible market impact.

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Understand your Trading System

In today’s market, a trader’s problems change as quickly as he or she can solve them, which is why having a rule-based strategy is more important than ever, says Mike Baghdady. In addition to trying to make correct trading decisions, new issues have arisen that we must attend to such as anonymity to protect our orders from negative selection and executing our orders with the least possible market impact. We also have to seek liquidity and have an algorithm to help us find that liquidity; and

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Understand your Trading System