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First Word: Can the markets cope with surging volumes and volatility?

At 11 Feb 2008 09:42:36 in ET-First Word, Electronic Trading    Print Article  Email Article   Full content requires subscription 

Volatile markets, don’t you just love them? Well, that probably depends on which side of the trade(s) one sits, and on how sophisticated your IT systems are when it comes to coping with the wild intraday swings. The hedge fund ‘locusts’, high frequency traders and stat arb players, must be lapping up it by scalping intraday profits on blue-chip stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the FTSE 100 and other leading indices. Some leading stocks have seen daily percentage movements greater than over the course of the whole of 2007.



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