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HFT Firm Latour Trading Receives Record Fine

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Mark Melin
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A high speed trading firm that often accounts for 4 percent to at times as much as 9 percent of overall stock market volume, agreed to pay a $16 million fine for apparently moving a little too fast and loose with its margin capital.

Latour Trading agrees to pay the seven figure fine

Latour Trading LLC agreed to pay the seven figure fine, a whopping 40 times larger than the previous fine of $400,000 for such behavior, without admitting guilt.  The news was first reported by Reuters. Latour is a division of New York-based Tower Research, which was reported to be under investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for high frequency trading violations.

The SEC complaint notes that...

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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.