The FBI is looking into the practices of high-frequency stock trading firms, adding to the scrutiny that is being placed on the practice.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.One way that high-frequency traders have gained […]
AP PhotoNew York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks during a news conference Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, at City Hall in Philadelphia.This morning, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman declared war on high-frequency traders, or HFTs, and what he called the “fundamentally unfair – and potentially illegal – situations that give elite groups of traders early access to market-moving information at […]
“Fat Finger” or just more “High Freaks”? At 1110ET, the FTSE100 futures contract (representing the most liquid vehicle for trading the broadest UK stock market) suddenly rocketed up 1.3% on huge volume… and then, just as remarkably, Nanex shows, most of that price exuberance returned to normal within 10 seconds… Doesn’t look like a fat finger order to us? with […]
