Studies Link Profit To Early Release of Fed Data

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Mark Melin
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A study by Singapore-based researchers and a quantitative report by high frequency trading professional Eric Hunsader come to the same conclusion: Privileged traders are receiving information before most of the market. The difference between the two is that the research from Gennaro Bernile, Jianfeng Hu and Yuehua Tang at Singapore Management University looks at the issue from well before the release, expanding the study time horizon while Hunsader, typically, is focusing on the real short term: milliseconds. Large volume of buy and sell orders ahead of Fed data release: Singapore report The Singapore study, quoted in a Bloomberg article, noted…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.