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Is the kind of HFT that Jane Street does that reliant on extremely low latency? A lot of HFT firms operate on the timescale of seconds, minutes, or even hours,
by ummonk 7y ago
Is the kind of HFT that Jane Street does that reliant on extremely low latency? A lot of HFT firms operate on the timescale of seconds, minutes, or even hours, not milliseconds.
- thedufer 7y agoI feel like there must be terminology confusion here - the HF in HFT stands for high frequency, which effectively means low latency. There may be HFT firms that additionally do slower stuff, but no one would call a trade on the timescale of hours HFT - it's a fuzzy line, but certainly nothing measured in units larger than microseconds would qualify to someone in the industry, and the line is likely lower than that.