http://hedge.lu/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=The_importance_of_getting_dividends_right 2026-09-22T19:30:22Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.28.2 http://hedge.lu/index.php?title=The_importance_of_getting_dividends_right&diff=46&oldid=prev 2017-06-24T15:26:24Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en-GB'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:26, 24 June 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7" >Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Description of the case ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Description of the case ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Virtu Financial is a High-Frequency Trading house, which deploys complex algorithms to trade stocks and other assets in the US. Full of brilliant PhD, Virtu has an almost immaculate track record. Almost, as Virtu did loose money on one day between 2009 and 2014&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000104746915001003/g857380.jpg SEC Filing of Virtu Financial]&lt;/ref&gt;. The computers of the firm missed a special dividend, resulting in a few millions of dollars of loss&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-11/virtu-never-loses-well-almost-never-in-quest-to-upend-markets Bloomberg, ''Virtu Never Loses (Well, Almost Never)'']&lt;/ref&gt;.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Virtu Financial is a High-Frequency Trading house, which deploys complex algorithms to trade stocks and other assets in the US. Full of brilliant PhD, Virtu has an almost immaculate track record. Almost, as Virtu did loose money on one day between 2009 and 2014&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000104746915001003/g857380.jpg SEC Filing of Virtu Financial]&lt;/ref&gt;. The computers of the firm missed a special dividend, resulting in a few millions of dollars of loss&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-11/virtu-never-loses-well-almost-never-in-quest-to-upend-markets Bloomberg, ''Virtu Never Loses (Well, Almost Never)'']&lt;/ref&gt;.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Take-aways ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Take-aways ==</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;== Firms Involved == * Virtu Financial == Year of the event == 2010 == Description of the case == Virtu Financial is a High-Frequency Trading house, which deploys complex al...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Firms Involved ==<br /> * Virtu Financial<br /> <br /> == Year of the event ==<br /> 2010<br /> <br /> == Description of the case ==<br /> Virtu Financial is a High-Frequency Trading house, which deploys complex algorithms to trade stocks and other assets in the US. Full of brilliant PhD, Virtu has an almost immaculate track record. Almost, as Virtu did loose money on one day between 2009 and 2014&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000104746915001003/g857380.jpg SEC Filing of Virtu Financial]&lt;/ref&gt;. The computers of the firm missed a special dividend, resulting in a few millions of dollars of loss&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-11/virtu-never-loses-well-almost-never-in-quest-to-upend-markets Bloomberg, ''Virtu Never Loses (Well, Almost Never)'']&lt;/ref&gt;.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Take-aways ==<br /> * Missing corporate actions can have dire consequences, or at the very least tarnish one's track record.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> &lt;references /&gt;</div>

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