His firm now pitches its online trading customers on money market accounts, mortgages, asset management and loans.
Mr Whitcomb runs Automated Trading Desk, a firm that competes with market makers, and freely admits the need for independent confirmation of his findings.
ComScore shares are down sharply in late trading Wednesday after the Internet market research firm reduced its guidance for 2011.
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Shares in the large networking and communications firm surged more than 8% in post-market trading.
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Sebastian began his career with Group One Trading, an equity options market-making firm.
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Shares of the K-Cups and Keurig coffee machine firm have plunged nearly 30% in pre-market trading, as traders react to a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings report.
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So a high-frequency trading firm that wanted to sell could still turn to another electronic market.
Can we hold out hope that the new combined public firm, which will be one of the largest high frequency trading, market making, broker dealing firms in the world, will be audited by a group of professionals that can make sure the arguably systemically important new public company has airtight IT?
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As the downdraft worsened, he says an executive for the firm ran on to the trading floor and gave the order to pull out of the market.
Naturally, Goldman is in the process of trying to centralize all equity orders from every part of the firm, including its block trading desk and the division that services high net wealth clients, to increase its market share of all equities traded.
Accenture shares are trading modestly lower Monday morning after Bernstein Research analyst Rod Bourgeois cut his rating on the IT consulting firm to Market Perform from Outperform in what it basically a pure valuation call.
The additional fees "could alienate their core market, " said Scott Freeze, president of Street One Financial, an ETF trading and advisory firm.
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