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High Frequency Trading in Foreign Exchange Markets
High Frequency Trading (HFT) is somewhat of the bête noire of financial markets at the moment. It has been blamed for many adverse market developments in recent times, most famously the ‘flash crash’ in equity markets on 6 May 2010. But the assessment of HFT is often hampered by difficulties in identifying it, because it is hard to distinguish from other types of automated (but not high frequency) trading, generally known as algorithmic or algo trading. HFT is a part of algo trading but algo trading has a many times greater presence in the market than HFT. It is therefore crucial to have a clearer understanding ... (full story)
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- Oct 12, 2011 12:27am Oct 12, 2011 12:27am
- bhale
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- cogs
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My comments are not to be taken as trading advice, not a financial advisor