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# Markets Media Twitter Survey : #DefineHFT

 07.18.2012 By Terry Flanagan

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![TradingScreen_logo_RGB_300dpi.jpg](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)TradingScreen [@TradingScreen](https://twitter.com/TradingScreen/)  
 Large numbers of small buy and sell orders issued concurrently to support complex trade strategies and liquidity movement

![Broadway%20Technology%20Logo%20v1.png](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)Broadway Technology [@bwaytech](https://twitter.com/bwaytech/)  
 continuously adjusting positions as fast as technologically possible to profit from mechanics of market infrastructure.

![Bates_John.jpg](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)John Bates [@drjohnbates](https://twitter.com/drjohnbates/)  
 Computer-based quant trading algorithms 2 analyze mkt data streams in real-time, ID trading opportunities, place & mng orders w low latency

![Wolkoff_Neil.jpg](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)Neal Wolkoff [@NealWolkoff](https://twitter.com/nealwolkoff/)  
 A Direct Access firm having no affirmative or negative obligations sending proprietary quotes to a marketplace using automated programs.

![Carter_Jeffrey.jpg](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)Jeffrey Carter [@pointsnfigures](https://twitter.com/pointsnfigures/)  
 if they can't define HFT in 58 words I can't do it in 140 characters. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck it's a duck

![Hunsader_EricScott.jpeg](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)Eric Scott Hunsader [@nanexllc](https://twitter.com/nanexllc)  
 Trading that relies on speed over everything else for profitability. Or: Sub-second latency arbitrage trading.

![Percy Jock](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png) Jock Percy [@PerseusTelecom](https://twitter.com/PerseusTelecom)  
 HFT: trading often.

![Jaouen Sebastien ](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png)Sébastien Jaouen [@orange\_trading](https://twitter.com/orange_trading)  
 #HFT: a technological race for the fastest execution infrastructure with different #trading and alpha generating strategies in play

 

CFTC Technology Advisory Committee Draft Definition, May 2012: HFT is a form of automated trading that employs algorithms, low-latency technology, high-speed connections, and high message rates.

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