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Brief description: Publisher, The High Frequency Trading Review

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Joined: July 22nd, 2011

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Mike O'Hara bookmarked U.S. v. ALEYNIKOV [US Court of Appeal] (38 days ago)

Mike O'Hara wrote a new blog post titled Upcoming Panel Session on News Analytics and News-Based Trading

This Thursday evening, I’ll be moderating The Mankoff Company’s “After the Bell” panel discussion on News-Based Trading, at the Grange Holborn Hotel in London. The use of unstructured news-based information in trading algorithms is a fascinating topic, and one that is gaining an increasing amount of attention among investment firms looking for new ways to capture alpha. But the whole process of taking unstructured, language-based sources and feeding them into algorithms designed to generate profitable trading strategies comes with all sorts of challenges. Where do...

(63 days ago)

Mike O'Hara updated a blog post titled Report from OnX FIX Consortium Breakfast Briefing

Last week, I had the honour of chairing a breakfast briefing hosted by OnX Enterprise Solutions, to discuss the results of a piece of research they recently did with a consortium of leading IT vendors, which looked at the performance of various FIX engines through a real-world, highly optimised technology stack. The briefing was well-attended with 60+ people in the room (who can’t all have been there just for the free sausage & bacon rolls!). David Quarrell of OnX - who I’m sure is already well known to regular HFT Review readers through his blog - kicked off procedings with...

(66 days ago)

About me:

My name is Mike O’Hara, and I’m an ex-derivatives trader with 20+ years experience of selling and supporting financial technology solutions, in the front, middle and back office. For most of the last ten years or so, I’ve been self-employed as an independent consultant.

I originally created the High Frequency Trading Review because I’m particularly interested in the fast-developing world of high frequency and algorithmic trading, and I wanted to have a platform to discuss the players, the technology, the news stories, the controversy and everything else that makes HFT such a fascinating topic.

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