HFT

HFT may account for half of all equity trading (and much the same proportion of revenues) in New York and a quarter in London.

It did not appoint an overseas investment adviser when setting up its second QDII fund, HFT Greater China Equity, in December.

HFT Flow Transmitters can be used to set flow rates, fluid motor and cylinder speeds.

Brazil's 2% tax on foreign equity and debt investments in 2009 did not deter existing HFT firms but did discourage new ones.

Moves by the Securities and Exchange Commission to review flash orders are welcome, as would be a proper look at HFT.

HFT is high-volume trading used by banks' proprietary traders and a new breed of electronic trading outfits.

On Singapore's exchange, the share of derivatives trades accounted for by HFT has risen from 10% to 30% in two years.

According to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an author and investor, HFT "magnifies changes and ultimately makes the system weaker" .

HFT is a catch-all term for ultra-fast electronic trading in which participants hold positions for short periods.

Now, however, cheaper technology, plus the disaggregation of traditional exchanges, means HFT is exploding.

Another popular HFT strategy is to collect rebates that exchanges offer to liquidity providers.

HFT uses automated strategies to capitalise on inefficient pricing of financial instruments at blinding speed.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some HFT firms being bought.

However Mr Alder said there was "evidence of HFT-like activity in the warrants market" .

Instead of being better informed about a company, HFT outfits are simply seeing and acting on market prices sooner than competitors.

most HFT firms have already incurred the fixed costs of developing their proprietary-trading platforms.

Chew Sutat of Singapore Exchange says that HFT increases trading volumes, improves market liquidity and lowers trading costs.

HFT may not carry risks to the financial system but no one knows for sure .

There is almost no HFT on HKEx's cash equities market, largely because the territory's stamp duty has so far deterred such traders.

The results are as follows: Exogenous hormones enhance HFT gene expression.

The effects of HFT, which perhaps accounts for 70 per cent of US trading volumes, are ill-understood.

The world received a glimpse of the possibilities in May, when just one computer system at one non-HFT company caused the "flash crash" .

Exchanges are also keen to court HFT firms.

The latest involveshigh frequency trading (HFT) and so-called flash orders.

They should know who is using HFT and to what standards they are held.

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HFT firms indulge in "dark arts" like placing "spoof" orders to sell shares at attractive prices

they should force HFT entities to pay a fee per message, not per trade;