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Eric Stockland, managing director in electronic trading at BMO Capital Markets, said the buy side should ask brokers to experiment with their algo wheels in order to incentivize innovation.
Stockland spoke at TraderForum’s annual member conference on the broker perspective on the implementation of algo wheels.
Algo wheels are an automated routing process which assigns orders to a broker’s algo based on the best fit to a preset list of conditions and have helped the buy side to implement a more systematic approach to trading.
Brokers have to compete for a place in the wheel based on the quality and execution performance of their algorithms.
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FLASH FRIDAY is a weekly content series looking at the past, present and future of capital markets trading and technology. FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instinet, a Nomura company.
Principled trading was the topic of the latest Powering Precision Discussion, produced by Coalition Greenwich in collaboration with Instinet.
Shane Swanson, market structure & technology analyst at Coalition Greenwich, framed the topic as the adoption of socially responsible trading trends, or “how ideals of social responsibility are impacting firms and their view of trading, on a visceral level.”
Instinet President Mark Govoni emphasized the importance of ESG for the capital markets industry. “We’re witnessing an important paradigm shift, from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’,” he said.
February 4, 2021
Robinhood has long capitalized on the belief that the little guy gets screwed by Wall Street. Now that story has boomeranged on the eight-year-old brokerage.
After a week of rampant stock trading in which retail traders appeared to turn the tables on hedge funds and then get locked out of the market by their own brokerages everyone from customers to social-media provocateurs and politicians is asking whether Robinhood is just one more place that favors rich over the regular person.
The thing about Robinhood’s financial democratization pitch that it’s placing “financial power into the hands of everybody” is that there’s some truth to it. Brokerage commission charges have been declining for decades, and Robinhood took it the next step by dropping fees to zero. Other brokerages followed suit, and now some market structure experts say retail traders are getting a better deal on their stock transactions than even the pros are.