Stock index futures trading was down 1.2% from January to June with 981, 203, 554 contracts traded.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which has already been studying how fast computers affect stock trading, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are coordinating their investigation into what went wrong Thursday, when the stock market went haywire and collapsed nearly 1, 000 points in 20 minutes, only to recover most of the lost ground.
U.S. stock index futures were trading modestly higher Thursday morning on some follow-through buying strength.
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Stock futures are higher in early trading, but a strong daily close is needed to signal that a rebound is finally underway.
Once again, the stock index futures are lower in early trading, but are holding above initial support.
America's stock market futures also lost ground in premarket trading in New York.
Electronic trading of U.S. stock futures is expected to begin again at 4:30 p.m.
U.S. stock futures were weakening late this morning as well after trading higher earlier.
While stock and options trading was closed Monday, electronic futures trading was still open through the early morning and again in the evening.
Since that day, regulators from both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have been trying to piece together how a flood of early afternoon selling in stock futures and in stocks themselves led to a momentary 998-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
Yet no such standards exist for the engineers who develop the automated-trading software upon which our stock, bond and futures markets depend every day.
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In 1987, most stock trading was concentrated at the New York Stock Exchange, although futures and options were very much in the mix.
The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreign exchange (FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
In an abbreviated morning electronic trading session on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, futures on American stock indexes edged higher.
The New York Stock Exchange and New York futures exchanges are closed, although there is still some electronic trading of New York markets Monday.
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The New York Stock Exchange and New York futures exchanges all closed Monday, although there was some electronic trading of New York markets that occurred early Monday.
European markets and the stock index futures are both lower ahead of the opening, and I am expecting more choppy trading over the coming weeks.
That is, when the futures markets get out of synch with the cash market for stocks trading on stock exchanges, the computers instantly spot the difference and pounce, buying one and selling the other for a few minutes, which brings them back into synch.
Apple futures are down, and the stock itself is has fallen 8.3% in after-hours trading in Germany.
The complaints have gotten a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have just gotten a proposal by the Treasury Department for a sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation, including the merger of the SEC with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the reassignment of many of the SEC's enforcement duties to the stock exchanges and other self-regulatory agencies.
The big oil and gas firms account for more than half of the Russian Trading System stock index, which is the reason why the Russian trade is so highly correlated to oil futures.
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