The growth and impact of high-frequency trading

Comments (0) | 1 Nov 2009 | Rating | Print by Neil Stewart

Technology and competition have sparked an explosion in HFT. However, for IROs, it represents an intra-day distraction, not a long term impact.

The blink of an eye takes 300 milliseconds. Exchanges and other trading platforms are catering to investors who want to execute a trade in less than 100 nanoseconds. That’s millions of shares, millions of trades, each in less than one 3,000th of a blink.

Rapid advances in technology ...

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