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Island ECN was one of the first electronic communication networks established for the trading equities in the United States. Founded in 1996 by Datek Securities veterans Jeff Citron and Joshua Levine, Island executed its first trades in 1997. History Prior to Island, Citron and Levine worked together at Datek Securities (now TD Ameritrade). Citron's background was in trading and Levine had experience with software development. While at Datek, they worked together to develop a software program called Watcher. Watcher was one of the first programs to provide real-time quote and electronic order capabilities for trading Nasdaq stocks through the Small Order Execution System (SOES). In 1995, Watcher was augmented with a system called "Jump Trades" that let users of Watcher skip the Nasdaq intermediary and trade directly with each other.: 116 On February 9, 1996, Levine announced the launch of Island.: 117  Unlike the existing Instinet system, which still used human traders to match buy and sell orders,: 110  matching on Island was fully automated. Island published an electronic feed called "ITCH" of all trades in the system, and used a protocol called "OUCH" to place orders. The data feed was accessible for free, an innovation over the tightly controlled data for traditional exchanges, and trading fees were significantly lower than on Nasdaq.: 119–120 One of its first customers was South Carolina-based Automated Trading Desk, an early algorithmic trading firm. Island grew quickly, accounting for almost half of all trades on Nasdaq's SelectNet system by late 1996, and handling $22.1 billion of transactions between July and September of that year.: 122–124  By 1998, it had become the second-largest ECN, after Instinet, with 20% of the market.: 154 In October 1999, Citron was forced out at the behest of president Ed Nicoll, who was worried that Citron's connections to Datek—then under investigation by the Justice Department—could cause the firm legal issues. In December 2000, Island became a separate company from Datek, with Matt Andresen as CEO.: 162–166  Island was an early hub for high-frequency trading firms like Getco and Tradebot in the early 2000s.: 193–195 Instinet acquired Island Exchange in 2002 and renamed the trading platform to Inet. References . Discover the Joshua Levine popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Joshua Levine books.

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    Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

    Joshua Levine

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    I Fought at Dunkirk

    Mike Rossiter

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    The Domesday Quest

    Michael Wood

    In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the No...

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    Taylor Downing

    The full, dramatic story behind Operation Fortitudethe biggest subterfuge of World War IIand the plan to mislead the Germans into thinking that the invasion of Europe would come at...

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    Martin Wainwright

    Wainwright: The Man Who Loved the Lakes is a celebration of the British landscape, and it tells the remarkable story of Alfred Wainwright who in 1952 decided to hand draw a series ...