The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining a stock trading technique that gives certain high-volume traders an advantage over smaller investors. "Flash orders" allow traders to freeze a buy ...

In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading. True to form, Lewis tells a heroic story, in this case about how a team from Royal Bank of Canada ...

The SEC has formally proposed a ban on the practice of ‘flash’ trading where large financial companies get access to trading information fractions of a second before it becomes public and use ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The New York Times reports that Chuck Schumer has persuaded the SEC to ban one of the ...

Direct Edge, a small, four-year-old electronic trading company on Jersey City's waterfront in Newport, sits at the center of Wall Street's newest trading flap. In its race to grow, Direct Edge helped ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to ban the practice of “flash” trading, where some large financial companies get access to stock trading information milliseconds before that ...

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Regulators on Thursday proposed banning "flash orders," which give some traders a split-second edge in buying or selling stocks. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...