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The high-frequency strategy was first made popular by Renaissance Technologies [27] who use both HFT and quantitative aspects in their trading. Many high-frequency firms are market makers and provide liquidity to the market which lowers volatility and helps narrow bid–offer spreads , making trading and investing cheaper for other market ...
Systematic trading (also known as mechanical trading) is a way of defining trade goals, risk controls and rules that can make investment and trading decisions in a methodical way. [ 1 ] Systematic trading includes both manual trading of systems, and full or partial automation using computers.
High frequency trading (HFT) is controversial. Some investors say it lets people capitalize off of opportunities that may vanish quite quickly. Others say high frequency trading distorts the markets.
Based on interviews I conducted with a trading expert and a quantitative finance guru, I now have a better idea. ... discuss the different roles of flash trading and high-frequency trading in ...
Algorithmic and high-frequency trading were shown to have contributed to volatility during the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, [41] [43] when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 600 points only to recover those losses within minutes. At the time, it was the second largest point swing, 1,010.14 points, and the biggest one-day point decline ...
The headline on a new study from economist Andrei Kirilenko is being promoted as something like "High-Frequency Trading Hurts Small Investors," but the title is misleading. While high-frequency ...
One of the biggest changes to hit trading in the last decade is the shift from human traders to computers, or high-frequency traders. Computerized trading has turned the Dow Jones into a jittery ...
A few years ago, while I was in business school, I had the chance to work as an intern at a hedge fund that performed high-frequency trading, traded derivatives, and used leverage that would make ...