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FAQs about high frequency trading
70 Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ about high frequency trading that investors asked are from the High Frequency Trading Explained course that provides a detailed examination of the high frequency trading technology and process as well as the market changing impact. The many questions investors asked are listed here and linked to each individual lesson. Both this list and the lessons are regularly updated as markets, investments, and investing change.
Read MoreIntroducing high frequency trading explained
Introducing high frequency trading explained, gives an overview of this course that explains how computers and the latest technology get used to generate huge trading volumes to rig stock markets. Those great volumes, traded at blazing speeds, change markets trading shares, commodities, options and currencies. Course lessons explore those changes, how they came about and how they impact the wealth of every investor.
Read MoreInvestors deal with high frequency trading
How investors deal with high frequency trading dramatically changes investing results. Getting the details right can protect investments and trades from HFT. The lesson teaches how superior investors play their small investor advantages to deal with HFT infected markets. Those advantages keep superior investors ahead of HFT and other market rigging schemes.
Read MoreMarkets, technology, and laws respond to high frequency trading
Markets, technology and laws respond to HFT exploitation. That investor abuse attracted a range of responses from a new exchange to doing nothing. Proposals included technology speed bumps, taxes and regulations. Although regulators continue to talk, in most cases proposals are only words. That means no market, trading or investing fixes will address markets rigged for HFT. Time will tell if lawmakers and regulators change to address HFT. Meanwhile, HFT advantages over investors continue. So for now, addressing HFT abuse is up to individual investors.
Read MoreMisinformation myths of high frequency trading
Misinformation myths of high frequency trading (HFT) confuse and mislead investors. Driven to protect advantages over investors, bold hype shields HFT pick pockets feeding on investor orders. Their aggressive propaganda campaign protects the market rigging advantages built for HFT. In response, superior investors must become informed, aware and learn countermeasures. Once aware of the pervasive […]
Read MoreHigh frequency trading strategies, risks and regulations
High frequency trading (HFT) strategies, risks and regulations show their effects across markets. Those markets, tilted by regulators and exchange managements, favor HFT over investors. It continues with constant market change that supports the tilt against investors. All the while HFT uses technology and strategy unavailable to any investor. Only aware investors can protect themselves from HFT.
Read MoreFair and foul high frequency trading
Fair and foul high frequency trading (HFT) hides in arbitrage plays. Some fair plays happen but foul plays take advantage of investors. When those occur, HFT is using this common stock market strategy with unmatchable HFT speeds and their paid access to market and investor information for an unbeatable edge. That means arbitrage trades can suck money from investor pockets. Investors that know and understand HFT, can keep the impact of such actions small. However, as always, informed investors make better decisions and can trades without fear of HFT.
Read MoreHigh frequency trader 3-Way ambush
The high frequency trader 3-Way ambush is a business fix trapping investors. That fix happened when exchange management traded fees and profits for changed stock exchange priorities and operations. Those major changes began became widespread once NYSE paid volume fees. Accepting those fee contracts opened the way for the HFT 3-way ambush on investors. Following that, similar changes cascaded across markets to sell out all investors.
Read MoreMarket management burns investors
Stock market management burns investors with market tilting changes favoring high frequency traders (HFT). That includes structural changes made by exchange management. Those changes sealed the fate of investors. That happened because those changes served investor market orders to HFT. The tipping point happened when the NYSE changed in response to the 2008 financial crisis. They accepted and favored HFT which changed markets and investing. Then, virtually all major markets did the same.
Read MoreLaws and ethics beat investors
Laws and ethics beat investors when high frequency trading tilts markets.
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