It's a brave new world of securities trading and new worries for the public.
There are nearly 50 trading venues. Customers can interact in all of them--making today's trading so complicated.
How does an order flow? How does it actually execute? Who facilitates the trade?
Ah, the good old days of 1960. It was pretty simple then. Not so in 2010. Here's a brief history.
More than half of all stock trades are the result high-frequency trading. Does that put the system at risk?
The SEC is working to improve the way it monitors and regulates the markets. Here's what needs to be done.
High-frequency trading has spawned a new breed of market mavens far different than the traditional Wall Street titans.
The May 2010 Flash Crash helped draw attention to how fragmented the stock market has become and how potentially illiquid it can be in an era of high-speed, computer trading.
Worries about the role ETFs play in changing the nature of how people invest and the market’s high correlation to itself.
There is genuine concern that changes in market trading structure are leading to the death of stock-picking as we know it.
Are NYSE and Nasdaq conflicted? They serve both shareholders, and investors, to whom they must maintain a transparent marketplace.
Four ways individual investors can fight back against a high-tech army. The trick may be to join them.
An editor's journey into the world of high-frequency trading and proprietary algorithms that make or break markets.
These hotshots aren't household names. Until recently, they've shunned the limelight.
When the SEC reveals the results of its investigation, it's a good bet it won't finger the real culprit: itself.
The days of shares "changing hands' are long gone. Now it is man and machine, and sometimes, man vs. machine. Here's a look at the players, companies, technologies and trading platforms.