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Bull and bubble: Frenzied retail trading, outrageous valuations, easy money drive market madness

“The bull, it seems, has gone berserk. What had been a relentless but mostly orderly rise in stock prices since last spring has given way to a riotous new phase of the bull market, fuelled by frenzied trading among the growing ranks of small investors and rookie day traders.”

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The rise of day trading should be celebrated

There has been considerable coverage of the rise of day trading since the onset of the pandemic. With many more people stuck at home, on furlough or unemployed, there has naturally been increased interest in trying to make a living from the markets.” says Daniel Schlaepfer, the CEO of Day Trade the World (DTTW), a company that offers anyone the opportunity to start their own day trading office.

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Select Vantage Inc. (SVI) Statement on Completion of ASIC Investigation

Select Vantage Inc. is pleased to have been informed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) that its investigation into suspected contraventions of the Corporation Act in relation to trading in various securities has been completed, and that ASIC has decided it will not take any enforcement action.

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High-Frequency Traders Feast on Volatile Market

Some quick-draw traders that don’t use complex algorithms are also benefiting from the market’s swings. Daniel Schlaepfer, CEO of Select Vantage, which has more than 2,000 day traders world-wide, said his firm’s top 10 record days have occurred this month. Daily trading volumes across the firm have doubled since markets began their slide, he said.

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Revenge of the robots: What is driving the market’s wild swings

Think of last week’s stock market as a Terminator movie. As an individual investor, you were an all-too-human Sarah Connor, up against thousands of computer-based traders (that’d be the nefarious Skynet artificial neural network). If you’ve seen the film – any of them, really – you’ll know how the showdown ended: You survived, but you got beat up pretty good.

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Daniel Schlaepfer, CFA

President and CEO

Daniel Schlaepfer is the President and CEO of Select Vantage Inc (SVI), and its affiliates Select Vantage Canada Inc, Select Vantage Ontario Inc and Elite Vantage Placement Ltd. SVI is a global leader in electronic market-making, employing over 2,500 staff in 39 countries. On any given day, the firm can trade over US$3 billion a day on global stock markets.

Educated in Canada, Daniel received an MBA from the John Molson School of Business, Goodman Institute of Investment Management at Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He is a CFA charter holder and passed the FINRA series 7 and 24 exams as well as CSI courses, CSC and PDO.

In 2019 Daniel was named to Canada’s Top 40 under 40 list and Concordia University’s Top 50 under 50 alumni shaping business in Canada. He is also a serving member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Market Structure Advisory Committee (MSAC), a forum that discusses issues associated with market structure and marketplace operations in the Canadian markets.