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All their coverage of hft when nobody was talking about it
by dismal2 10y ago
All their coverage of hft when nobody was talking about it
- 21 10y agoThe usual coverage of HFT on ZH is like this: Gold price spikes down, it's the HFT slamming it because they work for the Central Banks. Gold price spikes up, it's because investors are concerned about the market. Stocks spike up, it's the HFT again. Stocks spike down - investors start seeing that the whole market is a scam. So the HFT trade only in the "wrong" direction according to ZH. They sell gold and buy stocks. Never the other way around. I'm exaggerating, but only a bit, there were a few articles which blamed HFT for "right" moves (gold up, stocks down).
- dismal2 10y agoI meant around the time of the flash crash and in them making hft more mainstream
- tptacek 10y agoEveryone I've talked to that works in HFT --- and that's a bunch, because we built a trading CTF --- sums Zero Hedge up the same way 'yummyfajitas (also a former HFT) does: "a conspiracy theory site without the theories".