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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest the group with teams of PhDs writing high frequency trading algorithms might have an advantage over a dude with a R
by nprz 6y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest the group with teams of PhDs writing high frequency trading algorithms might have an advantage over a dude with a Robinhood account.
- optimalsolver 6y agoThat just means they get to make bad decisions faster.
- pfortuny 6y agoThey have more information but time and again, they have indeed lost. Sometimes some of them, everything. They are not “the house”.
- quantumofalpha 6y agoHFTs certainly have an edge on micro/milli/seconds timescales, where price moves are more predictable. But that expertise doesn't necessarily generalize to mid/low-frequency trading where human traders and the real world come into play.