James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 years. She is an adjunct ...

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 ...

In North America and Europe, high-frequency trading (HFT) has been put under the microscope. Flash crashes—the most recent of which befell the British pound on October 7—price volatility, heaps of ...

While high-frequency trading has become a staple in today’s trading markets influencing prices, their might be another way to combat them aside from buying fast computers or using microwave ...

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 ...

Elvis Picardo is a regular contributor to Investopedia and has 25+ years of experience as a portfolio manager with diverse capital markets experience. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered ...

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 ...

Sebi recently announced plans to allow retail investors to use algorithmic trading soon. It had allowed institutional investors to do so in 2012. That resulted in trades happening in fractions of a ...

Recently CoinDesk published an article titled, ‘High Frequency Trading is Newest Battle Ground in Crypto Exchange Race’ that discusses trading venues offering direct connectivity to their matching ...

European Commission reforms to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive represent an outright attack on high-frequency trading, but all users of algorithmic trading strategies in Europe could ...

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