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Bob Hechkoff Freehold, NJ-- Bob Hechkoff learned long ago that if a driver has the best horse in the race theres only one place to be and that is on the front-end. And thats exactly where the veteran amateur harness racing driver put his Boots N Chains in the $9000 American Harness Drivers Club trot at Freehold Raceway on Saturday afternoon(12-19) and the 8-year-old trotter made every pole a winning one en route to a 2:01.1 victory. After starting from the five-hole Hechkoff sent his charge to ...

High-speed trading. heres a clip from your interview with the owner of liquid net, a so-called dark pool that allows institutional investors to trade large blocks of securities without wild swings in prices. >> we continue to invent things faster than the regulators can understand it. and faster than we have the ability to assess the risk of it. so what happens and what has happened is that the industry makes a tremendous amount of money creating these new types of products until it blows up the...

Algorith algorithms. they are trading firms that use superfast connections to take advantage of stock movements measured in fractions of a penny within fractions of a second. they do it it countless times a day. in fact, up to half of all trading volume on exchanges is now taken up by such high frequency trades. so where does ha leave the little guy? many would say at a disadvantage. some would say the little guy has always been at a disadvantage. for retail investors who stayed informsed in the...