Just a couple of months ago we’ve been making fun of Timber Hill. A few Norwegian retail investors fooled the sophisticated automatic trading software and made a few bucks along the way. Both vikings, Svend Egil Larsen and Peder Veiby, were sentenced to suspended jail terms last October. Story isn’t over yet, as they will appeal [...]
Last post I mentioned a new Dutch community site for retail investors. It’s looking allright but is still seriously lacking critical mass. Anyway, the site is launched by online broker Binck/Alex and although they are evolving into a straight competitor of Euronext’s stock trading platform – the relationship between them is fine. In this column [...]