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Are You Faster Than A Stock Market Spoofer? | Zero Hedge

Think you too could “Sarao” the markets? Step right up and test your ‘spoofing’ skills…As an “old school point’n’click prop trader” he managed to set and cancel thousands of trades in milliseconds.Click image below for reaction speed test…If you can’t beat 20ms, then every HFT shop just front-ran you and executed your ‘test’ trade…It appears ‘humans’ are not capable of […]

OUTRAGEOUS: The stock market is rewarding … – Business Insider

Wikimedia CommonsIf you were only looking at the stock market, which remains near record-high levels, then you’d have no idea that many companies are warning up front that the first three months of the year were worse than expected.”For Q1 2015, 85 companies in the S&P 500 have issued negative EPS guidance and 16 companies have issued positive EPS guidance,” […]

US stock markets open lower after February jobs report falls short …

US financial markets drifted in morning trading on Thursday, with energy stocks among the biggest decliners as crude oil prices fell. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP
Private employers added 212,000 jobs in February, short of a forecast 220,000, although January’s reading was revised upward to 250,000 from the initial 213,000.US stocks were poised for a lower open on Wednesday, putting the S&P 500 […]

Why American Airlines Group (AAL) Stock Is Trading Down On …

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Why American Airlines Group (AAL) Stock Is Trading Down On Monday

Following the release of January traffic numbers, American Airlines stock is trading down on Monday
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By: Joshua GriffinPublished: Feb 9, 2015 at 12:17 pm EST

American Airlines Group Inc (NASDAQ:AAL) stock is trading down by around 3.24% as of 12:04 PM EST, following the release of air traffic results for January on […]

The State of The Markets…2015

Share on StockTwitsEmbedThings have for sure gotten tougher in the markets despite the free money, low interest rate environment.The 10 year yield in the USA is below 1.80 percent. You can buy that, not me. I would rather have cash and a few bitcoins below $200.Despite the boom in biotech and private investing, the overall ‘tape’ has changed. I could […]

An Updated Look At The Stock Market | Seeking Alpha

This article originally appeared on the Independent Observer Blog.I recently took a look at housing for the first time in six months or so, and I thought it was time to examine the stock market in similar fashion to see where we are.In my market commentaries and videos, I have continued to discuss the positive trends and healthy fundamentals-which are […]

10 stocks everyone will brag they own

If there’s one thing you can expect at holiday parties, it’s all the bragging about the stocks people owned. Funny, they’re all the stocks that went up.There are 10 stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500, including biotech Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Southwest Airlines (LUV) and Electronic Arts (EA) that you can be certain to hear people talk about owning. We […]

News sources & avoiding media hype, Building Wealth, Investing …

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEpisode 47: My news sources are very simple.– Firstly, I avoid visual media of any kind (ie no broadcast, cable or internet TV).– To find the truth, I triangulate between the New York Times & the Wall Street Journal.– Investor’s Business Daily is a good reference for current stock market trends.– The Financial Times, […]

For better snacking, big data is the secret ingredient | VentureBeat …

Snacking is officially a craze. More than nine out of 10 Americans snack daily — a quarter of them three to five times every day, according to a recent Nielsen survey. But it’s not just people in the U.S. who are sneaking a bite. Snacking is now a $374 billion global industry, and it’s growing 2 percent annually.Europeans spend nearly […]

EQLIM Startup Aims To Surface Geopolitical Big Data In The Middle …

The EQLIM startup, which means ‘region’ or ‘territory’ in Arabic, has launched, aiming to create a subscription service for real-time data about human activity in emerging economies. The Beirut, Lebanon-based startup wants to address the lack of data about the Middle East.It will look at big data covering geopolitics, infrastructure, and commerce, as well as data cross health, environment, agriculture, […]