What is high speed trading, algorithmic trading, quantitative trading and high frequency trading?

Last Updated on 7, April 2014

High speed trading. It is also known as algorithmic trading, quantitative trading and high frequency trading. Much of such algorithmic trading is proprietary. Very little is known how it works. It was estimated that high frequency trading account for 56% of the equity trades in the US. In other words, 1 out of 2 trades (by value) were done by a robot! Below is a CBS documentary on high speed trading.

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