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Every minute the stock market is open, tens of thousands of transactions occur. Some of them happen when investors hit the buy or sell button. However, a majority of them happen automatically, through ...

In the rapid-fire online world of money, High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is among the most revolutionizing creations of the times. Once limited to traditional stock exchanges, HFT has discovered a fresh ...

In North America and Europe, high-frequency trading (HFT) has been put under the microscope. Flash crashes—the most recent of which befell the British pound on October 7—price volatility, heaps of ...

In today’s financial markets, speed greatly impacts success. Even a millisecond can separate profit from loss. This is where HFT trading software steps in. This software is built to execute thousands ...

This is the second in a series of blog posts on MiFID II(Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II). If you missed the first post, seeMiFID II: How Did We Get Here and What Does it Mean?Continuing ...

The ongoing generative AI boom has brought automation technology back into the spotlight across several sectors, and for the world of institutional investing, the rise of the machines has helped to ...

Sebi recently announced plans to allow retail investors to use algorithmic trading soon. It had allowed institutional investors to do so in 2012. That resulted in trades happening in fractions of a ...