High Frequency Trading has been around for a while but has been getting more attention since the unprecedented intraday U.S. stock market crash, known as the flash crash, on May 6th, 2010, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 1000 points in a half hour before recovering in minutes. What is high frequency trading? VOA's Philip Alexiou reports.
I thought about this years ago. Even worked with a programmer to setup a test algorithm pulling 10 years of historical stock data from Yahoo. It makes sense to have a computer do it for you. This whole "Place a data center blocks away" is rather unfair tho. There should be some sort of redundancy in place to ensure everyone gets the same information at the exact same time.
Phreak2600 1 month ago
never heard of high frequency trading before.
1PeaceNation 3 months ago
all bull shit
anacruzable 4 months ago
Google: Calibrated Confidence High Frequency Trading
TheLivingStone7 5 months ago
ha the real traders old timers know what happened , the price was bid up bringing in all the monkeys then the big boys pulled the plug no bids the real true value was 1053 on the S&P so anyone caught upside down got a spanking
benjiheads 11 months ago 2
shame and sham
desdamona2002 1 year ago
HFT and many of these strategies are the same so if one has a micro or millisecond advantage over the other you have a racing effect which is what caused the cascade. Enough of the lame lie that the HFT traders turned off their strategies. Perhaps some did but plenty were still running raping and gaming the system as usual.
plify777 1 year ago
HF trading and Predatory HFT makes up most of the volume on the CME as well as most other Exchanges.
The value of the Exchanges stock depends on trading transaction fees and as more small and medium prop shops and retail traders accounts continue to blow up it is clear that this staggering manipulation and huge volume is generated by the HFT strategies. Why would the Exchanges want this type of trading restricted as there is more in profits to boost their own stock and pay off the Congress?
plify777 1 year ago