High-frequency trading, or HFT, is a trading method that employs computers to conduct a large number of transactions in fractions of a second. Computers use complex algorithms to analyze the markets ...

Every minute the stock market is open, tens of thousands of transactions occur. Some of them happen when investors hit the buy or sell button. However, a majority of them happen automatically, through ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Algorithmic trading involves three broad areas of algorithms: execution ...

This is the second in a series of blog posts on MiFID II(Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II). If you missed the first post, seeMiFID II: How Did We Get Here and What Does it Mean?Continuing ...

In today’s financial markets, speed greatly impacts success. Even a millisecond can separate profit from loss. This is where HFT trading software steps in. This software is built to execute thousands ...

In the rapid-fire online world of money, High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is among the most revolutionizing creations of the times. Once limited to traditional stock exchanges, HFT has discovered a fresh ...

In this Traders Q&A, Portware's John Adam examines whether new new regulations around algo trading are coming to a trading desk near you. At an industry event last week, SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White ...

Refers to computerized trading using proprietary algorithms. There are two types high frequency trading. Execution trading is when an order (often a large order) is executed via a computerized ...

Using algorithms, supercomputing power, and low-latency trading technologies, high-frequency trading (HFT) seeks to take advantage of market price inefficiencies in order to make a profit. HFT is a ...

Growth of low latency and algorithmic trading is continuing in the Chinese market despite regulatory limits on high-frequency trading on the country's futures exchanges, according to Alec Chan, sales ...

Sebi recently announced plans to allow retail investors to use algorithmic trading soon. It had allowed institutional ...