Fast trading and High frequency trading HFT: helps or hurts markets?
The debate starts on how to define HFT. To focus on the techniques of the practice, traders and investors call it “a number of techniques to facilitate trading,” said Edgar Perez, author of the book “The Speed Traders.”
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Anything that employs capital into the market is probably good. It is a pain for us old-school prop traders but nothing that can’t be adapted to. It does cost exchanges a lot more to handle the quote volume. The retail investor probably just gets a faster fill.