Category: Cyber-Trading Technologies
The Atlantic: Monsters in the Market
Here is another timely article by a reputable news source, Monsters in the Market. I find it really hilarious to have recently learned this blog has been boycotted by the financial services crowd and their CEP cheerleaders because of my “rants”. I guess the same crowd will need to boycott The Atlantic, Fortune, and other [...]
Read moreFrankenstein’s Monster
Colin Barr has covered finance for Fortune.com since November 2007. Colin was a writer and editor for TheStreet.com, winning a 2006 Society of American Business Editors and the Writers award for “The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street,” and for Dow Jones Newswires. Colin pinned an excellent article on May 7th, High frequency trading: Why [...]
Read moreHigh Frequency Trading Destroys Market Integrity
It is pretty clear to most everyone that high frequency trading (HFT) destroys market integrity. In recent comments on my blog post, Strongly Regulate High Frequency Trading, Colin Clark shift’s the discussion away from HFT and points the finger at other market fundamentals. I agree with Colin that there are certainly myriad other problems caused [...]
Read moreStrongly Regulate High Frequency Trading
In Regulation: Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater, Progress CTO John Bates illustrates the principle of advocating a position based on a natural conflict-of-interest and then wrapping “the package” in rhetorical phrases. First of all, the US economy (read individual investors) would be much better off if financial services firms (or anyone) were [...]
Read moreWhat’s Really Happening in the World of CEP
There is quite a lot is happening in the world of complex event processing. Interestingly enough, the people and the companies advancing processing complex events are not calling what they are doing “CEP the Buzzword” we read about in the press or that a handful of “pioneers” claim make them modern-day CEP “experts”. The companies [...]
Read moreComplex Event Processing in the Belly of the Beast
Around 10 years ago I worked as Technical Director for SAIC as a member of an elite group of Internet security experts. I was responsible for a number of very large global financial corporations (well, actually two). The leader of our division, called The Center of Information Protection (The CIP), was a very intelligent [...]
Read moreReal CEP News: Amazon Announces Elastic MapReduce
Yesterday Amazon announced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web-based service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon Elastic MapReduce utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service [...]
Read moreReasoning and Complexity
In a short follow-up to CEP Software Saves the Universe!, I thought it would be helpful to post some quotes from Wikipedia on reasoning and complexity. Cognitive science sees reasoning by the analogy to a data processing, where relations between observed properties of reasoning are used in numerous models leading to evident logically correct conclusions [...]
Read moreReal-Time, Online and Offline Complex Event Processing
Using NIST as computer science reference, an online algorithm is an algorithm that processes data (including events) element-by-element (and event-by-event), serially without having the entire problem space available from the beginning. In contrast, an offline algorithm is provided the entire problem set from the start. Hence, real-time event processing applications generally involve online processing. Offline processing is useful when creating [...]
Read morePeter Lankford, Founder & Director of STAC, on CEP, ESP and EPP
The following is a reprint of Peter Lankford, Founder & Director of STAC comment on CEP, ESP and EPP. This is one of the best comments on CEP, ESP and EPP I have read. Peter Lankford Founder & Director, STAC I’ve read the blog for some time and have been meaning to contribute some thoughts [...]
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