Every minute the stock market is open, tens of thousands of transactions occur. Some of them happen when investors hit the buy or sell button. However, a majority of them happen automatically, through ...

Elvis Picardo is a regular contributor to Investopedia and has 25+ years of experience as a portfolio manager with diverse capital markets experience. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Algorithmic trading involves three broad areas of algorithms: execution ...

In today’s financial markets, speed greatly impacts success. Even a millisecond can separate profit from loss. This is where HFT trading software steps in. This software is built to execute thousands ...

In North America and Europe, high-frequency trading (HFT) has been put under the microscope. Flash crashes—the most recent of which befell the British pound on October 7—price volatility, heaps of ...

In the rapid-fire online world of money, High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is among the most revolutionizing creations of the times. Once limited to traditional stock exchanges, HFT has discovered a fresh ...

Algorithmic trading is no longer the exclusive domain of niche quantitative firms—it has become the backbone of modern financial markets. I am already seeing the significant impact AI-driven ...

Growth of low latency and algorithmic trading is continuing in the Chinese market despite regulatory limits on high-frequency trading on the country's futures exchanges, according to Alec Chan, sales ...

At an industry event last week, SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White seemed to make a case that algorithmic trading has just as much a role in the health of the markets as HFT and dark pools. In prepared ...

Using algorithms, supercomputing power, and low-latency trading technologies, high-frequency trading (HFT) seeks to take advantage of market price inefficiencies in order to make a profit. HFT is a ...