So for the world as a whole, if a financial transactions tax put a bit of a dampener on financial innovation and trading (whether low frequency or high frequency), that would probably be no reason to weep - unless (to state the obvious) investment banking is your life.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been studying a number of proposals that would put an extra burden on firms engaged in high frequency trading strategies or on firms assisting other firms with high frequency trading.
Quill said some firms are turning to cross-asset trading because the high frequency trading (HFT) business is now dominated by ultra high frequency trading firms whose massive investments in sophisticated hardware like FPGAs has made it difficult for smaller players to compete.
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"This translates to daily high frequency in purchases and consequently high volume in sales, " he added.
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The flash crash was not high frequency trading, it was high velocity trading.
This frequency is close to the lower band of the highest radio frequency band known as extremely high frequency which goes from 30 to 300 GHZ.
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High frequency traders, using powerful computers to trade in nanoseconds in high volume, are courted by exchanges because volume equals profits.
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Accelerating the declines, high-frequency hedge funds, which use computers to trade at super high speed, appeared to pull back from the market as prices collapsed.
High frequency trading attracts a lot of press because of the unusual hardware needs.
Already high frequency and other computer traders have been viewed with an increasingly skeptical eye.
When it comes to high frequency trading, the rack is the computer, Mehta said.
High frequency trading has been a highly contentious introduction to the market in the last decade.
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Schwartz said that high frequency funds account for around 60% of the trading volume on Wall Street.
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Many other traders, including those representing the much vilified high frequency trading crowd, support the same argument.
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These high frequency traders make up an estimated 60% of daily market volume during ordinary trading.
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High frequency trading (HFT) is based on proprietary computer models that buy and sell securities without human intervention.
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But the high frequency camp argues it is benefiting the markets by adding liquidity and reducing trading costs.
High frequency traders and investment managers are seeking alpha wherever they think they can find it, said Casey.
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Only dogs were invited because the band played music on such a high frequency, only they could hear.
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Algos and high frequency traders increase the speed and magnitude of the move.
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According to Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics, unemployment in August was likely 9.6%, compared to 9.5% in July.
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Matt Schrecengost of Jump Trading is another high frequency trader scheduled to appear.
High frequency trading, oil and gas modeling, pharmaceutical research and engineering often make great demands on their computing environments.
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False market depth was created by high frequency traders and arbitrageurs who traded relentlessly but only accumulated small inventories.
He is talking about normal trading latency, not the millisecond or microsecond latency that high frequency traders (HFT) pursue.
Will a transaction tax put a crimp in high frequency trading shadow-like activities?
High frequency trading has been scrutinized in recent years because of its links to financial scares like the Flash Crash.
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