High-Frequency Trading Firms Eye South Africa: What’s Driving the Shift? So, what exactly are High-Frequency Trading (HFT) firms, and why have they become critical to today’s financial ecosystem? More ...

Overview: Algorithmic trading is most profitable for well-funded hedge funds and HFT firms with advanced infrastructure.Artificial intelligence improves researc ...

High frequency trading firms in the FX markets are unlikely to be a source of systemic risk or the cause of an FX market flash crash, as occurred in equity markets in May 2010, an event largely blamed ...

Every era of financial markets has been defined by who provides liquidity. Floor traders gave way to electronic market makers ...

What if the difference between profit and loss in financial markets wasn’t measured in seconds, but in nanoseconds? High-frequency AI trading (HFT) systems operate in this razor-thin margin of time, ...

The FIA European Principal Traders Association (EPTA) will discuss issues affecting the European proprietary trading community, the trade body said today (Tuesday). Remco Lenterman, director of Dutch ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In today’s markets, milliseconds drive advantage. Fintech trading platforms have ...

Saudi Arabia is ramping up efforts to lure high frequency trading firms – a campaign that’s brought in major players from Citadel Securities to Hudson River Trading – as it looks to bolster activity ...

Abhi Pingle is a savvy trader. For a year and a half, he worked at Optiver, one of the top high-frequency trading firms. HFT shops employ traders known as quants who are highly skilled in programming ...

High-frequency traders are the whiz kids of Wall Street. They either code scripts to execute quick trades to eke out small ...

As the U.S. high-frequency trading debate rages, we think it is worthwhile to take a closer look. First, what is HFT? We refer to common usage traits laid out by the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent subpoenas to at least six high-frequency trading firms this week, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Those firms can thank Michael ...