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I work in HFT and i probably couldn't run most of my stats on these exchanges. There are some that can be but their performance limits what can be run. The one
by jnordwick 9y ago
I work in HFT and i probably couldn't run most of my stats on these exchanges. There are some that can be but their performance limits what can be run.
The ones that could be run are often the same that were run on the exchange floor but you wouldn't call those 20 years ago HFT.
- gnaritas 9y agoBitcoin exchanges are full of manual TA chart traders, to them everyone running algo's is a HFT; context matters, you can't compare the nascent tech in Bitcoin to a modern Wall Street exchange. If you're algo trading as fast as technically possible on the exchange, you're HFT'ing. Words have meaning, you can't get any higher frequency than as fast as the exchange allows. HFT'ers collocate because it gives them an edge, they were HFT'ers before they discovered that edge, collocating isn't what makes it HFT. Trying to trade faster than your competitor, competing on speed, that's what makes something HFT.