Showing posts with label HFT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HFT. Show all posts

Friday 29 April 2016

* HST . Occassional Paper FCA_ UK

High-frequency traders (HFTs) have received a mixed reaction from academics and practitioners with some people underlining their role as liquidity providers and others highlighting the problems that they could bring to the market.

From summary:  Do HFTs exploit their small (milliseconds) latency advantages to anticipate orders arriving in very quick succession at different trading venues from other market participants?. The regulatory EU set-up makes it more difficult to predict where orders will be routed, compared to the US market?