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I frequently wonder how much market volatility is amplified by High frequency trading and algorithmic trigger fingers. With most of the decline reference in thi

by wpasc 8y ago

I frequently wonder how much market volatility is amplified by High frequency trading and algorithmic trigger fingers. With most of the decline reference in this article returned (at least from an index perspective) by March, I wonder how much of this rapid-fire precipitous change was technologically executed without human oversight.

AlexTWithBeard 8y ago
See the Onion Futures Act, which banned trading of onion futures in 1958. A brief summary is: experts have been divided on the effect that onion futures trading has on the volatility of onion prices. To me it sounds like the effect of trading on volatility is relatively small. Beware though that this stance tends to piss off people with both left and right political views.