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High Frequency Trading: Do Regulators Need to Control this Tool of Informationally Efficient Markets?

From the Cato Institute: High Frequency Trading (HFT) is a form of algorithmic trading where firms use high-speed market data and analytics to look for short term supply and demand trading opportunities that often are the product of predictable behavioral or mechanical characteristics of financial markets. Some opponents have argued that these practices create risk …

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Why Trading Volume in the Stock Market Has Dried Up

Market Shadows Newsletter: It’s my party, and I’ll leave if I want to (via Market Shadows) Read the latest MarketShadows August 12 2012 Excerpt: Trading volume this week dried up. Retail investors are realizing that the markets are manipulated and retail traders are learning that it’s difficult to compete against the High Frequency Trading Machines. Zero …

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