There are lots of ways to tweak Colby's strategy, such as dialing back on trading frequency and restricting the list to North American stocks or certain industry groups.
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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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.
Seventy percent of trading in the markets is high frequency program trading.
This kind of record trading volume plus volatility can only have been the result of extraordinary high frequency trading by computer and the quant hedge funds, going in and out of Apple and IBM and big bank shares dozens of times a day.
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One of the largest high-frequency trading firms recently plucked one of his best engineers.
High frequency trading attracts a lot of press because of the unusual hardware needs.
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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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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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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Many other traders, including those representing the much vilified high frequency trading crowd, support the same argument.
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The trial of the alleged Goldman Sachs spy, high-frequency trading programmer Sergey Aleynikov, is in its second week.
High frequency trading (HFT) is based on proprietary computer models that buy and sell securities without human intervention.
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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.
High frequency trading, oil and gas modeling, pharmaceutical research and engineering often make great demands on their computing environments.
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The flash crash was not high frequency trading, it was high velocity trading.
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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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.
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.
That is especially important in automated high frequency trading (HFT) where a flawed model can lead to immediate losses, as MathWorks says.
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