This is slowed down for human consumption, but the entire show takes place in less than a second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5jJuMP84E
What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
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MachineGhost
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What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." -- Thomas Hobbes
Disclaimer: I am not a broker, dealer, investment advisor, physician, theologian or prophet. I should not be considered as legally permitted to render such advice!
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Re: What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
I've always thought of it as computers day trading using algorithms..
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Re: What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
Aye carumba. This is why it's called "trading" and not "investing".
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
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Re: What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
Reminds me of a 1990s era art installation.
Re: What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
Maybe it's too much of a generalization but I've always thought that HFTs improve market efficiency by making small profits on (supposedly) mispriced securities.. and greater market efficiency is usually a win for passive investments (like the PP.)
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Re: What High Frequency Trading (HFT) Looks Like
Thats the lie the HFT apologists sell you. In reality, its a tax on everyone. And the regulators are so far behind the curve, it is comical.blackomen wrote: Maybe it's too much of a generalization but I've always thought that HFTs improve market efficiency by making small profits on (supposedly) mispriced securities.. and greater market efficiency is usually a win for passive investments (like the PP.)
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." -- Thomas Hobbes
Disclaimer: I am not a broker, dealer, investment advisor, physician, theologian or prophet. I should not be considered as legally permitted to render such advice!
Disclaimer: I am not a broker, dealer, investment advisor, physician, theologian or prophet. I should not be considered as legally permitted to render such advice!