A group of traders has sued CME Group Inc., accusing the operator of the world's largest derivatives exchange of selling market data to high-frequency traders, cheating other investors who lacked such ...

If you’re ready to get into high-frequency trading, you’ll need the high-frequency trading software that can potentially give you the returns you seek. High-frequency trading (HFT) has exploded in ...

High-frequency trading (HFT) is a type of investing that relies heavily on the use of algorithms to scan the market and capitalize on small, frequent trades. This style of trading relies on powerful ...

Journalist Michael Lewis’s polemic against high frequency trading, Flash Boys, has spurred heightened scrutiny of the practice and debate about increased regulation across the financial world, but not ...

Can quantitative trading possibly get any faster? During the last decade, computers and fiber-optic networks have dramatically reduced the time it takes to execute an order in the financial markets.

Traders work at the Knight Capital kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 3, 2012. Embattled Knight Capital Group Inc has obtained a credit line that will allow the brokerage to ...

A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world’s quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world’s largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster.

The rise in the number of high frequency trading firms in FX markets has had an overwhelmingly positive effect on market liquidity, rather than a detrimental one, a veteran hedge fund manager told ...

Today, in an economic speech at the New School in Manhattan, Hillary Clinton spoke out against short-term traders. “The problems are not limited to the big banks that get all the headlines. Serious ...

If you thought that stock traders made enough money, and wielded enough power over the global economy, think again: Financial traders are now turning to high-speed laser networks between stock ...

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