Proprietary trading

JRA Memo Belvedere Trading is a company that develops high end trading software to help their traders in the field. This sort of technology must be efficient to stay ahead of the game. This flows right into their mission statement, “To invest in the continuous improvement of our skills and technologies in order to identify and capitalize on trading opportunities in an ever-changing global marketplace.” The marketplace never stops changing, it takes a lot of people and their input to come up with ideas quickly. While they have over 200 employee’s it says in the culture section of their website, “We believe in the absence of barriers to communication and the maintenance of our small company culture.” For ideas to flow freely and employees to…

out. The disenfranchised are able to make themselves known, people are able to openly criticize specific aspects of a culture, and all are able to reach a wide audience. Springboarding from increased communications between people across the world, open source projects are able to use crowd-sourced labor to produce software, including entire operating systems. In the first video, they lampoon outsourced technical support for items people have become dependent upon. In the world of open source,…

times a project will not get the developers or funding it needs and is therefore not updated enough. This leads to bugs and security flaws going unpatched and less feature additions. A small open source project can even totally stop when the creator loses interest. One of the most dangerous bugs cause by lack of support for an open source project was Heartbleed. This vulnerability in OpenSSL, a security protocol used by many websites, allowed attackers to steal passwords by exploiting a very…

Legislation and regulation regarding immigration into Canada have been major issue and a growing topic of discussion in recent years. Canada has a population of 33 million and has needed a large influx of immigrants to help support the workforce. With more skilled immigrants arriving to Canada, more would be able to contribute to the economy of Canada. In 2002, the number of immigrants was 229,000. In 2015, Canada has welcomed over 285,000 new citizens to live in Canada. Just last year in 2015…

information as it is very important to the decisions they make. When this information is leaked or used prior to its release to the general public, it can cause substantial changes in the pricing of a company’s stock. “Insider trading” is a term that is commonly known to investors, but what is insider trading? This term in most cases is references to illegal actions. However, the term speaks to both legal and illegal actions. According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (n.d.) (SEC),…

When we look at the process of developing policies there is a newer way of approaching this. The Bottom-Up approach allows for more potential to accomplish and accommodate to policies regarding climate change. Working better than the reverse side of top-down approach as it is becoming to vague and isn’t able to be as efficient as it was originally made. Policies under this category tend not to be able to adapt to the new technologies. One of the benefits to Bottom-Up process is the ability to…

There hasn’t yet exactly been an effective collective state response when responding to the issue, there have been numerous treaties and long-term endeavors proposed, however, a lack of progress continues for many countries around the globe, especially for China and the United States. Individuals, businesses and the governments of various nations are forthcoming ways to respond to the issue, however, there have been considerable setbacks and other conflicts down the line. A prime example would…

The Kyoto Protocol developed three carbon finance mechanisms: International Emissions Trading Systems (ETS), the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and the Joint Implementation (JI). ETS was the first carbon finance mechanism designed for countries to trade emission allowances or emissions removal credits. CDM allows an industrialized country to invest in GHG reduction projects in a developing country in exchange of carbon credits (i.e., offsetting). Similarly, JI allows an industrialized…

fossil fuel prices, trading appetite of large corporations, and so on. Even a colder-than-expected winter can be a bullish signal to the carbon market. Historically, two significant price drops occurred as a result of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, and a series of political events at the national and international level around 2012. The 2008 financial crisis Figure 2 shows the historical price trend of EUA and CER, the two most important compliance credits. The 2008 financial…

named( X-Box) for the Microsoft Corporation. Upon receiving the contract, Nvidia's Chief Executive Officer sent out a company-wide e-mail to every employee notifying them of the contract award. And letting all employees know to keep the X-Box information confidential. They also executed a trading blackout on the purchase of Nvidia stock for several days, Bhagat would go on to purchase stock a large volume of Nvidia stock. He would also detail that he had read the email briefly but not in…