One of the largest high-frequency trading firms recently plucked one of his best engineers.
So a high-frequency trading firm that wanted to sell could still turn to another electronic market.
The arrest of the Goldman programmer helped put high-frequency trading into the spotlight last year.
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This would make it easier for the agency to track high-frequency trading in the future.
Notably, the most spirited discussion I attended was about whether high-frequency trading hurts long-term investors.
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The trial of the alleged Goldman Sachs spy, high-frequency trading programmer Sergey Aleynikov, is in its second week.
That could roil the high-frequency trading world, a competitive and controversial business that is transforming the financial markets.
Moreover, exchanges, high-frequency trading firms and other players will likely have qualms about issues of privacy, competition and cost.
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As an industry, high-frequency trading grew, peaked and matured in three years flat.
High-frequency trading relies on algorithms that exploit tiny price differences in the markets.
Most high-frequency trading is fundamentally a form of market making with very tight inventory control and very short-lived positions.
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The flash-crash report provides some vindication for high-frequency trading firms, which had been widely blamed for the mayhem that day.
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Meanwhile, the modern emphasis on high-frequency trading (computers swapping shares with each other every millisecond) hardly contributes to shareholder engagement.
For those who run millions of dollars the latest fashion is called high-frequency trading: get in, snag a tiny profit, get out, repeat.
High-frequency trading accounts for some two-thirds of all trading volume, experts say.
Once the high-frequency trading seemingly subsided immediately post-announcemnt, the real selling ensued.
The day also represented an important coming out of sorts for Getco, the high-frequency trading shop that handled the opening of GM trading.
Larry Tabb, founder of the financial technology research firm, TABB Group, has in the past made two key points related to high-frequency trading.
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And although high-frequency trading may make markets less volatile in normal times, it may add to the turbulence at the worst possible moment.
But exchanges are technology companies now, catering to electronic traders and high-frequency trading firms, and competing with dozens of electronic markets and dark pools.
The intervention of specialists becomes harder today because high-frequency trading algorithms are extremely explicit and are largely devoid of such considerations of civic duty.
How much of a benefit does Sauter attribute to market developments in the past 15 years, which include decimalization, high-frequency trading, increased fragmentation, Reg.
High-frequency trading, in which computers zip in and out of stocks all day, accounts for more than half of daily trading activity in the markets.
As The New York Times reported last year, profits from high-frequency trading have started to fall, off 74% in 2012 from the peak in 2009.
The high-frequency trading boom he was riding had roots there with people who traded at the exchanges, now CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Overdahl insists, however, that the firms are not adopting a new name because of any negative overtones to high-frequency trading, which remains important to many of them.
His first job at a high-frequency trading operation was as a quantitative research analyst at Citadel, a giant Chicago hedge fund, which he joined in early 2009.
High-frequency trading now makes up half of the volume, while an explosion of order types does little more than guarantee confusion for ordinary investors, increasing stress.
Non-competes at other high-frequency trading firms have led to litigation.
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