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  • Nodal Exchange Receives CFTC Approval To Register As A Designated Contract Market

    Date 28/09/2013

    Nodal Exchange, LLC (Nodal Exchange) announced today that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved its application to be registered as a Designated Contract Market (DCM). The application was filed on October 11, 2012. Nodal Exchange will begin operation as a DCM effective on September 30, 2013. 

  • Nanex ~ 24-Sep-2013 ~ CIA And The Fed - Covert Information Asymmetry

    Date 28/09/2013

    Update: September 25, 2013

    A few articles covering this are focusing on trading in Gold. We singled out gold because it was one of the few instruments with high activity in the minutes before the 2pm announcement. This high activity preceeding the release allowed us to verify that the exchange time stamps we used later, were accurate.

    It wasn't just gold. It was everything that traded. In fact, the 1/100th of a second after 2pm was the most active 10 milliseconds in the history of the U.S. Stock an Futures markets. See charts at the bottom and also here.

  • Nanex ~ 20-Sep-2013 ~ Einstein And The Great Fed Robbery

    Date 28/09/2013

    Update: September 26, 2013

    We added charts (see below) that compare market reactions from previous events driven by news from Washington DC. These clearly show how New York markets respond about 5 milliseconds before Chicago. 


    Update: September 25, 2013

    A few articles covering this are focusing on trading in Gold. We singled out gold, is because it was one of the few instruments with high activity in the minutes before the 2pm announcement. This high activity preceeding the release allowed us to verify that the exchange time stamps we used later, were accurate.

  • Virtu Financial, Inc. Study Of Federal Reserve Announcement, September 18th, 2013

    Date 28/09/2013

    Nanex recently released a study called “The Great Fed Robbery” which suggested that certain embargoed news of the Federal Reserve decision regarding tapering was released or “leaked” early. After analyzing the Nanex study, the data used in the Nanex study and our own sources of market data, we have concluded that the Nanex study is severely flawed. The following is our conclusions based on clear facts associated with the events of September 18th, 2013.

  • CFTC’s Division Of Market Oversight Provides Time-Limited No-Action Relief To Temporarily Registered SEFs From Any Enforcement Responsibilities Under Commission Regulations 37.200(A), 37.200(B), 37.201(B)(1), 37.201(B)(3), 37.201(B)(5), 37.202(B) And 37.203 With Respect To Market Participants Trading On Those SEFs

    Date 28/09/2013

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) today announced the issuance of a time-limited no-action letter providing relief for temporarily registered swap execution facilities (SEFs) from any enforcement responsibilities under Commission regulations 37.200(a), 37.200(b), 37.201(b)(1), 37.201(b)(3), 37.201(b)(5), 37.202(b) and 37.203 with respect to market participants trading on those SEFs. The no-action relief in this letter only applies to entities that have achieved temporary registration status as SEFs as of October 2, 2013.