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 ...

Elvis Picardo is a regular contributor to Investopedia and has 25+ years of experience as a portfolio manager with diverse capital markets experience. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

Algorithmic trading is no longer the exclusive domain of niche quantitative firms—it has become the backbone of modern financial markets. I am already seeing the significant impact AI-driven ...

At an industry event last week, SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White seemed to make a case that algorithmic trading has just as much a role in the health of the markets as HFT and dark pools. In prepared ...

Refers to computerized trading using proprietary algorithms. There are two types high frequency trading. Execution trading is when an order (often a large order) is executed via a computerized ...

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 ...

Using algorithms, supercomputing power, and low-latency trading technologies, high-frequency trading (HFT) seeks to take advantage of market price inefficiencies in order to make a profit. HFT is a ...

Growth of low latency and algorithmic trading is continuing in the Chinese market despite regulatory limits on high-frequency trading on the country's futures exchanges, according to Alec Chan, sales ...