Showing posts with label Market Makers Lost at Facebook IPO Trading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Market Makers Lost at Facebook IPO Trading. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Market-Makers With Egg On Their Face at Facebook IPO!

It has been reported that there was such a chaotic situation on the Nasdaq on the first trading day of Facebook Shares. The chaos resulted in the four big market-makers of the Facebook's stocks, Citibank's ATD (Automated Trading Desk), UBS AG, Citadel Securities and Knight Capital Group losing a total sum of $115 million, out of which $20 million was lost by Citibank's ATD - I guess Citibank's trading robots would need a complete overhaul after this! Full Story

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