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High Frequency Trading gets high frequency attention

Posted Aug 3rd 2009 2:40PM by Todd Harrison (RSS feed)
Filed under: Technical Analysis, Stocks to Buy

The post was written by Minyanville Contributor James Anderson

High Frequency Trading (HFT), which is the use of computer models to enter trades, has received a considerable amount of attention in the blog space as well as the financial press. There are number different styles of HFT, but the most important part is the speed at which these trades are entered and executed.

The fastest possible computers are located adjacent to the computers that receive orders at the stock exchanges, and I when I say adjacent, it's not the building next door, it's literally feet away. This world operates in milliseconds, and even the speed of light in a fiberoptic cable is not fast enough for anything other than colocation.

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