When Facebook finally opened at $42.05, some traders' monitors, which should have reflected a steady stream of orders for company shares, were frozen.
The new feature allows traders to monitor social media buzz and market-moving news from their Bloomberg terminals.
On the finance side, its website also notes providing financial companies with monitoring technology to help "high-frequency traders to monitor, measure, and analyze critical network environments".
Pooling their complementary skills, Levine and Citron developed a series of DOS-based programs that made monitoring stocks and trading easier and faster.On a single screen the system allows traders to monitor the market, their current positions and other indicators.
Thus, if a Delta hedging strategy is robust, then a trader can monitor its performance by comparing a t,S t)) to the realized quadratic variation 〈S,S〉.
Traders were monitoring Hurricane Ike as it headed toward the Gulf of Mexico, and also looking toward Tuesday's OPEC meeting.
Crude oil futures rose in Asia on Friday, with traders nervously monitoring heating oil supplies as cold weather sets in the Northern Hemisphere and workers in Nigeria threatened to go ahead with a strike.
The committee has recommended that senior management on both sides of such trades be made aware of them, so the traders' supervisors can monitor the activity.
As for a CCP itself, however well intentioned it may be, it cannot monitor traders' complex derivative positions as well as they themselves can.
Gabriel Urwitz, chairman of the private equity firm Segulah and a former professor of financial economics, said the Swedish financial supervisory authority, Finansinspektionen, did not have enough regulators and the necessary regulation to monitor traders properly.
