Posts on: April 2015

Flash crash witch hunts

34 comments / April 24, 2015

Yeah, they got him. The guy who single handedly caused the markets to crash, armed with his excel sheet and some spoofing algo’s. Most people in the market are sceptic.  This post by Adrian Ip is one of the best reactions I’ve read. Everything below is written by Adrian (who works for Thomson Reuters). Original source is here. IRead more

IMC’s profit in perspective

6 comments / April 20, 2015

IMC Financial Markets have made a killing last year, but I’ve missed the point with the “steady growth“. Dusted off some old posts in the archive, got their yearly profits for the last seven years. Only 2011 was missing, but downloaded it from the kvk. Here, if you’re interested in old news. To cut aRead more

IMC Financial Markets posts record profits

3 comments / April 18, 2015

IMC Financial Markets posted record profits of €165 million over 2014. That’s 30% more than the previous year. Especially the last four months of 2014 have been very good, according to Rob Defares in FD (nl, paywall). The trading revenue was 17% higher with €474 million. Sharp growth since 2009 An annual profit of €165 million isRead more

A sinking HiQ and 80%

28 comments / April 13, 2015

Small post on the sisters HiQ Invest and DeGiro – both independent of each other but having the same parent company. The sinking HiQ First of all the hedge fund HiQ Invest. Founded by some former AOT traders, they received pretty good press after performing nicely in the first few years. Especially while carrying very lowRead more

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