Ann: Becoming a substantial holder in SDL by DB G, page-17

re: Ann: Becoming a substantial holder in SDL... I dug this up. Interesting read and shows how instos are able to trade stocks(via bots) in liquid shares like SDL and how they pride themselves on this. Don't think this insto is interested in taking any long term posiiton, imo.



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