New York, NY, May 26, 2012 ?(PR.com)? It was reported by The Wall Street Journal that high-frequency trading firms, known for the heavy burden they place on exchange systems, played no role in Nasdaq?s problems opening up Facebook?s shares for trading, Mr. Eric Noll, Nasdaq OMX Group?s Head of Transaction Services, said on the conference call. Most such firms do their trading after stocks open on the broader U.S. markets, Mr. Noll told member firms, and there were no signs that any were active as Nasdaq struggled to match up buy and sell orders to form the opening trade in Facebook.
That was just the confirmation of what Mr. Edgar Perez, author, The Speed Traders, and former McKinsey Co. consultant, had concluded after the day of Facebook?s IPO, when he penned a note in his blog, Trying to Blame High-frequency Trading for Facebook?s Nasdaq IPO Eclipse? Look Elsewhere (http://thespeedtraders.com/2012/05/21/looking-to-blame-high-frequency-trading-for-facebooks-nasdaq-ipo-eclipse-look-elsewhere/). Nasdaq has now laid out the details of the glitch. In spite of testing 1bn in trading volumes under 100 scenarios, the exchange was caught by surprise when cancellations of trades kept interrupting the computer system?s attempt to complete the auction and produce an initial price for Facebook?s opening. Nasdaq says it designed its ?IPO cross,? the process of calculating the opening price, in such a way that would allow continuous trading through an auction at the behest of its customers and has used the system in previous IPOs.
But in processing the huge volume of Facebook trades, it added two milliseconds to the time it took to produce an opening price. In those extra two milliseconds, orders to cancel the trades kept interrupting the auction process. That doesn?t seem to touch high-frequency trading at all, as shares were not even changing hands yet. As a result of the glitch the exchange decided to print the opening trade manually but was then forced to delay the process of confirming individual trades.
Speaking to reporters Sunday after the day of the IPO, Nasdaq OMX Chief Executive Robert Greifeld said that pulling the Facebook IPO never came under consideration Friday. Nasdaq said
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