Large numbers of small buy and sell orders issued concurrently to support complex trade strategies and liquidity movement
continuously adjusting positions as fast as technologically possible to profit from mechanics of market infrastructure.
Computer-based quant trading algorithms 2 analyze mkt data streams in real-time, ID trading opportunities, place & mng orders w low latency
A Direct Access firm having no affirmative or negative obligations sending proprietary quotes to a marketplace using automated programs.
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
Trading that relies on speed over everything else for profitability. Or: Sub-second latency arbitrage trading.
HFT: trading often.
#HFT: a technological race for the fastest execution infrastructure with different #trading and alpha generating strategies in play