High-frequency trading has spawned a plethora of conflicting viewpoints. For critics of the practice, HFT firms are predators that exploit technology to cheat the competitions and game the system. To ...

High-frequency trading (HFT) involves an approach where the algorithm executes thousands of orders that occur in a short period of time with one instrument. In 2022, the global HFT market was ...

Not much has been said recently about these so-called nefarious exploiters of the market structure. But wait, the news this week from the U.K’s Financial Conduct Authority that found that high-speed ...

I had a nice conversation this week about high-frequency trading (HFT) in crypto markets. Born out of an idea I had to explore the space generally, a bout of fortuitous timing let me speak with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Markets are cyclical, Darwinian and subject to diminishing returns. Nothing new in that observation. But people ...

If you ask an old-fashioned stockbroker, be prepared for an earful; meanwhile, regulator ASIC and market manager ASX have been bombarded with anxious messages from retail investors concerned that the ...

High-frequency trading is, by some accounts, a tax on the financial markets. In equity markets alone, HFTs may gain $5 billion in a typical year at the expense of other market participants, according ...