October 16, 2013, 3:41 pm On Wednesday, Knight Capital agreed to pay a $12 million fine to settle charges that it violated trading rules by failing to put adequate safeguards in place to prevent the barrage of erroneous stock orders. Knight Capital, which was recently acquired by the high-frequency trading…Read More

  Courtesy of Tom Lydon Renaissance Capital, the Connecticut-based investment behind the Global IPO Plus Aftermarket Fund (IPOSX) mutual fund, will introduce the Renaissance IPO ETF (NYSEArca: IPO) on Wednesday. The new ETF will be benchmarked to an in-house index, the Renaissance IPO Index, which is designed in conjunction with index provider FTSE. …Read More

Below courtesy of Rareview Macro;  MarketsMuse Editor caveat: Below is excerpt of independent opinion courtesy of contributor, this should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any type of securities. Portfolio Update The short position in the S&P 500 was covered and a long position was initiated yesterday…Read More

Courtesy of WSJ reporters Tim Cave and Sarah Krouse                                                                 Bats Chi-X Europe, the region's largest equities trading platform,…Read More

Courtesy of MarketsMedia.com 4 Oct 2013Gauging investor sentiment from tweets and other social media is receiving support from the trading and academic communities. “Twitter is full of alpha-generating potential,” said Emmett Kilduff, CEO and founder of Eagle Alpha, whose product Social Sonar, channels Twitter-based intelligence on stocks and global macro…Read More

From Zacks.com WisdomTree has enjoyed an incredible level of success with its ultra-popular Japan Hedged Equity Fund ( DXJ ) this year. Thanks to the success that has come from focusing on Japan, the company now appears ready to put out another product targeting the Japanese markets (read: Time to Focus on Yen-Hedged Japan ETFs? ).…Read More

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal online edition One in Ten Investors Now Hold at Least 50 Percent of their Portfolios in ETFs MarketsMuse Editor: We caveat with: below study conducted by brokerage platform Charles Schwab & Co. , which offers its own 'branded' ETF products in cooperation with it…Read More

Courtesy of Drew Voros & Matt Hougan/IndexUniverse.com Phil Mackintosh, managing director and head of trading strategy for Credit Suisse, recently visited IndexUniverse’s San Francisco headquarters and sat down with IU’s Global Head of Content Matt Hougan and Editor-in-Chief Drew Voros to talk about fixed-income ETFs, high-frequency trading and other topics.…Read More

by Stoyan Bojinov on September 23, 2013 Fed taper talks and looming concerns over U.S. involvement in Syria managed to steal the headlines over the past few weeks as investors expressed their concerns over geopolitical tensions and upcoming monetary policy changes. The “herd” along with financial news media outlets are…Read More

Courtesy of Tom Lydon, ETF Trends Once considered a toxic destination for investors, Eurozone ETFs have come roaring back to life over the past few months due to improved economic data, falling bond yields and attractive valuations. Over the past 90 days, investors have been treated to a 7% pop…Read More

Courtesy of Dave Nadig In yesterday’s flows article, I talked about one of the biggest problems with ETF flows data; that is, a lot of times, that data is buggy. The second problem is thornier. Even if you believe the data, it’s important to understand how it can be misleading.…Read More

MarketsMuse Editor Note: We tripped over this info-taining clip courtesy of ETFGuide.com's Ron Delegge Good viewing for elementary and advanced students of the ETF marketplace. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TYLZzXR4c&w=280&h=165]Read More

Courtesy of Chris Flood Trading activity by leveraged exchange traded funds during periods of high volatility could trigger a crash in the US stock market, according to a warning by the Federal Reserve. Leveraged ETFs (LETFs) use derivatives to provide a multiple of the daily returns of an index. When…Read More

Courtesy of Olly Ludwig/IndexUniverse iShares, the world’s largest purveyor of ETFs, on Friday is launching a futures-based commodities ETF designed to minimize contango and maximize backwardation—a follow-on to “GSG,” a first-generation fund it launched about five years ago that doesn’t target contango. The new fund’s benchmark currently includes 20 commodities.…Read More

Courtesy of Zach Hascoe/WisdomTree Investments We have heard it over and over: Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are wrappers, and the true liquidity of an ETF is derived from its underlying constituents.1 While that statement is true, it does not completely explain different types of liquidity that can exist in an ETF.…Read More

Courtesy of Steve Marlin/MarketsMedia With exchange-traded funds playing an increasingly important role in portfolio management, the ability to accurately price the instruments has placed a premium on market-making skills. “ETFs are a unique breed of financial instruments,” said Chris Hempstead, director of ETF execution services at WallachBeth. “Order execution requires…Read More

Courtesy of Barry Whyte/II Magazine Latest data show that most funds have weightings of more than 20 percent in financials. If the portfolios of value-oriented ETFs are anything to go by, the best value stocks out there at the moment are in the financial sector. The findings come from a…Read More

Courtesy of Chris Dietrich, WSJ After last month’s bond market selloff, many investors are hunting for strategies that can still provide high yields but won’t get hurt by rising interest rates. Increasingly, they are turning to exchange-traded funds focused on short-term junk bonds, which promise those investors just what they…Read More