Friday, September 21, 2012

Three Things HF Traders Have Over Everybody Else



According to zerohedge: One: HFTs have better access to the market. They have what we call direct access, which means they don’t have to go through a broker to execute their trades. HFTs, on the other hand, can choose the exchange that they want to trade on. They can look at all the prices for a given stock on all of the exchanges and make their own decision, rather than having a broker make it for them.

Two: HFTs obviously have a major speed advantage over other investors. They glean this advantage in many ways….

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