In some major markets in Asia, it can take seconds to execute an equities order. That's a lifetime for a trader who uses sophisticated algorithms to trade thousands of shares in a millisecond with the aim of earning a profit from market mak...Read More>>

DO RAPID TRADES HELP MARKETS? But some worry that regulators will tinker too much with a system that could actually be stabilizing the stock market. The high-frequency traders, even though they are unregulated, even though they have no obli...Read More>>

ADVISORY/HIGHFREQUENCY Few strategies have transformed the financial markets as much as high-frequency trading. Lightning-fast, computer-driven trading now accounts for 60 percent of total U.S. equity volume and continues to expand, with hi...Read More>>

Interest in high-frequency trading is at an all-time high, but profit-taking from high-frequency trading strategies focused on low latency is getting tougher. The window of opportunity to get into high-frequency trading is almost closed, sa...Read More>>

In a worn leather armchair on London's bare Blackheath, a middle-aged man is reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, in which a father and son trudge through a lifeless postapocalyptic world. Around him spreads a city of colorful pop-up tents,...Read More>>

SEC looking at whether trades have manipulative effect * Do fast trades make markets more or less efficient? WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - U.S. securities enforcers are looking at some of the high frequency trading that hedge funds are doi...Read More>>

Broker-dealers, which have long been competing with exchanges for electronic trading volume, and the newest entrants armed with state-of-the art technology, remain conflicted over the use of high-frequency trading. While some argue that the...Read More>>

The criminal prosecution of Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc programer charged this past summer with stealing some of the computer code for the firm's high-frequency trading program, appears headed to a rather anti-clima...Read More>>

In July, the New York Times ran an article implicating high-frequency traders in a range of misdeeds. In it, an industry leader complained the market was becoming two-tiered, with high-frequency traders having the upper hand. Then, in Augus...Read More>>

Over the past few months there has been some concern in the markets, not just about the sustainability and volatility associated with its powerful increase in recent months, but also about who is doing all this trading. Normally, investor o...Read More>>