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=== High Frequency Trading === | === High Frequency Trading === | ||
- | High-frequency traders employ algorithms to look for patterns in the market and exploit them. The bots that do the trading at millisecond speed are written by financial-mathematicians called Quants. | + | High-frequency traders employ algorithms to look for patterns in the market and exploit them. An important part of this is Low Latency Trading which uses computers that execute trades within milliseconds. The bots that do the trading at millisecond speed are written by financial-mathematicians called Quants. |
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- | Often the highest paid form of Quant, ATQs (Algortimic Trading Quants) make use of methods taken from signal processing, game theory, gambling Kelly criterion, market micro structure, econometrics, | + | < |
+ | Often the highest paid form of Quant, ATQs (Algortimic Trading Quants) make use of methods taken from signal processing, game theory, gambling Kelly criterion, market micro structure, econometrics, | ||
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+ | Dutch TV showed a great doc ' | ||
- | On the appearance of strange bots in algotrade: | + | |
+ | === On the appearance of strange bots in HFT === | ||
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But the algorithms we see at work here are different. They don't serve any function in the market. University of Pennsylvania finance professor, Michael Kearns, a specialist in algorithmic trading, called the patterns " | But the algorithms we see at work here are different. They don't serve any function in the market. University of Pennsylvania finance professor, Michael Kearns, a specialist in algorithmic trading, called the patterns " | ||
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