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Worth noting that the head of Yale's endowment fund and IEX's interests are aligned. The business model of IEX is to convince naive investors that high frequenc
by harryh 9y ago
Worth noting that the head of Yale's endowment fund and IEX's interests are aligned. The business model of IEX is to convince naive investors that high frequency trading is somehow screwing them and that they should choose to route their orders to IEX in order to avoid it. They then facilitate trading between these naive investors and large institutional investors (like Yale) who want to move large blocks of shares before the market moves against them.
- wbl 9y agoParent is correct. Uninformed order flow is what HFT wants to trade against: people buying because they have cash and selling because they need it. HFT doesn't want to trade with people moving prices at the old prices.