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Why do people trade against HFT (particularly, HFT market makers) if they just siphon money out?
by consz 10y ago
Why do people trade against HFT (particularly, HFT market makers) if they just siphon money out?
- j-pb 10y agoSame reason people gamble. You sometimes win.
- consz 10y agoA very, very large majority of all trading volume is done against HFT market makers. Regardless of the non-HFT trader's motivations, they appear to consistently trade with the HFT market maker over some other participant -- why is that? Even in the case when their motivation is to gamble, why gamble with the HFT as opposed to a non-HFT order?