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We still need to stop calling it High Frequency Trading and refer to it by what it is: Digital Front Running.
by JohnTHaller 12y ago
We still need to stop calling it High Frequency Trading and refer to it by what it is: Digital Front Running.
- nickff 12y agoHFT is completely distinct from front-running.[1][2] Front-running means that you (as an investment bank or other trading company) buy and sell stocks according to the orders you have received, but not yet executed from your clients (usually large institutional investors). HFT just means that you are quickly executing trades based on some algorithm(s). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running