What is High-Frequency Trading?

Remember the quote “time is money”? According to The New York Times, that game is over. Kaput. Now it’s “speed is money.” In an article entitled, The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets, Graham Bowley of NYT writes: In many of the...

What is High-Frequency Trading?

There’s been so much talk about the “flash crash” and high-frequency trading. Wonder what it is? Here’s a great, eight-minute  video that explains how high-frequency trading works: Norb Vonnegut