S&P volume down 50% from Friday levels
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Dow Jones Futures upside explosion - +1000
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MS (Up 85%), GS (Up 20%) Continue to Make New Highs
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GS Cuts Transocean's Price Target 58% to $75
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Merrill Lowers MS '09 Price Target by $0.45 to $3.53
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Merrill Cuts MS Price Target by $12 to $25
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MS Now Up 73%, GS 18.7% Higher
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Hambrecht urges help for small and medium sized banks
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Hoyer - priority for next Congress - fiscal discipline
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Hoyer - oversight will be priority of next Congress
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Pelosi - economic stimulus needed
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Pelosi - rescue package may not be big enough
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JPM cut by C; stock down thru 200 day moving avg
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Citi Widens JPM's Expected Q3 Loss to $0.32/Share
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JPM's Q3 Results Likely Below Forecast-- Citi
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Obama plan would allow $10k penalty free withdrawls from retirement funds
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Dow Back Above 9000, Up 6.5% on the Day
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UBS Cuts Visa's Price Target by $15 to $80
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UBS Cuts Mastercard's Price Target by $20 to $240
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GS At Highs of the Day, Back over $100, Up 13.6%
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Peek Ahead is AT's "footnote" - a one page column that takes a less than entirely serious look at aspects of the automated/algorithmic trading industry.

The way we shouldn't have been
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYEditor’s note: Peek Ahead is our venue for blue-sky thinking, challenging conventional wisdom and out-and-out disagreeing over key industry issues. If you would like to comment, or disagree, or send in some of your own blue-sky thinking, write to editor@automatedtrader.net. Where appropriate, contributions will be published on this page and/or on the website. full story
Just a lot of hot air?
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWhy, in the era of webinars, wikipedia and www.automatedtrader.net, do people still go to conferences? full story
The Blame Game
SUBSCRIBERS ONLYWhen things go wrong, the reflex reaction is to apportion blame. When things go wrong in the financial markets, who will the regulators be pointing their fingers at? full story
In MiFID we Trust
QUALIFIED REGISTRANTS & SUBSCRIBERSThis issue of AT coincides with another attempt by Europe to become a little bit more like America. No, not Tony Blair’s hopes of being elected President of Europe just in time to see Bill and Hillary move back into the White House. Rather, that slightly less foolhardy European Union initiative, MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive), which aims – as one of the pillars of a single European investment market – to allow Europeans to shop around between rival trading venues to get the best price for their favourite stocks and shares. full story
Less Smoke; More Mirrors
REGISTERED VIEWERSLet’s start with a quick multiple-choice quiz. What are Cobra, Ambush, Arid, Nocturnal and Covert? A) The line-up for a heavy rock weekender? B) A new range of toiletries for adolescent boys? or C) A new five-part Iraq War saga by Andy McNab? The answer of course is D) all of the above. Oh, and they’re also the names of algorithms, too. Add in a few references to dark books and deep pools of liquidity and you begin to understand how staff at certain marketing departments (mis)spent their youth. full story
Latency: The Hands-on Approach
FREE ARTICLEObviously here at AT we get a lot of press releases along the lines of “XXX announces the launch of latency busting YYY data feed/network/event processing engine that can process 10 billion messages/data points per nanosecond”. full story
Peek Ahead: DIY Disaster
FREE ARTICLEHow one fund house's attempt to build its own algos proved a rocky road to reality. full story
Peek Ahead: A Misleading Glimpse of the Future
FREE ARTICLE“AT pays a visit to a seriously secretive organisation and sees a human free vision of the automated trading future. Or possibly not…” full story