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Fintech Focus For January 7, 2021
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 - 7:34pm | 1483Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Don’t try to beat the competitors at their own game. You have to invent a new game — and master it. Source: Reid Hoffman One Big Thing In Fintech: The COVID-19 crisis has put pressure on banks to improve their digital offering as lockdowns have forced customers...
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PreMarket Prep For April 17: Canadian Solar Finally Gets A Bullish Voice
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 10:45am | 701Read More...Did you miss today's PreMarket Prep? Here are some of the highlights from the show. Highlights And Key Technical Levels The following are some of the stocks co-host Joel Elconin discussed on the show and offered technical analysis. Abbot Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) needs to hold its current area...
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Eric Hunsader Explains Why Markets Explode Before Scheduled Economic Events
Monday, June 6, 2016 - 4:19pm | 257Read More...Eric Hunsader, founder and CEO of Nanex, also known as the one-man market monitor, was a guest in Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep last Friday. The expert discussed liquidity around the release of the jobs report, and explained why investors see “explosions” around certain, relevant,...
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Did A Huge Commodity Fund Blow Up Wednesday Afternoon?
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 6:28pm | 269Read More...Markets took a beating on Wednesday. This week, NYMEX Light Sweet Crude Oil futures fell below the $30 level and commodity-exposed names have been the wet dog in January. At the cash close for oil futures at 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, there was a massive sell program running various stocks....
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Liquidity Is Dry And It's Making Some Traders Cry (Again)
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 3:49pm | 410Read More...November is nearing its end. Following the mayhem in August that is being falsely blamed on a trading style known as "risk parity" (which has been around for years), the U.S. equity markets continue to chug higher while the Fed debates a December rate hike. In the midst of all this,...
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It Might Not Be China, Commodities, Or Technicals: 7 Spooky HFT Charts From This Week
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 11:12am | 275Read More...According to most analysts and pundits, reasons for the latest market sell-off include the following: China, low commodity prices, energy default rates, or an old-fashioned technical correction. However, one issue that's flying surprisingly under the radar is high-frequency trading....
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Twitter Trades To Stand Following Inadvertent Earnings Release Before Market Close
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 5:39pm | 227Read More...Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) earnings were scraped off a historic URL used by Twitter from a third-party source. Following the inadvertent release, shares of Twitter were halted. Following the halt, Nasdaq announced it would review trades in Twitter. Nanex shows in a chart that following the halt...
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Here's How The S&P 500 Collapse Looked
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 2:50pm | 292Read More...The S&P 500 shaved more more than eight points in roughly 10 minutes on Monday. There doesn't appear to be any difinitive news item that caused the price to drop. Using iSentium's Twitter sentiment platform, a shift can be seen in sentiment to the negative before the futures sold...
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Eric Scott Hunsader Of Nanex LLC Talks Flash Crashes & Why The Markets Are Rigged
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 2:00pm | 977Read More...Eric Scott Hunsader combines his 25-year plus years of experience developing successful real-time trading software and founded Nanex in 2000. Nanex develops NxCore, a high-performance ticker plant technology that delivers Telvent DTN's whole market real-time streaming data service (sales,...
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SIP On This Idea: The NASDAQ Freeze Didn't Cause A Brain Freeze
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 10:40am | 1031Read More...The Nasdaq “Flash Freeze,” that halted the entire US equity and US equity option markets for roughly three hours last Thursday, August 22, has been a lightning rod for anyone and everyone that has been chomping at the bit to attack both the US regulatory system and high frequency trading (HFT). Is...
