The alleged purpose of such a tax is to reduce the arms race
among High Frequency Traders who exploit differences in the timing of bids and offers across exchanges at the level of thousandths of a second to engage in price arbitrage.
Not exact matches
High frequency trading and other types of automated trading have become very popular
among day
traders, since the systems take emotion out of the equation and generate more predictable returns.
High -
frequency traders have closed this difference to two - tenths of a penny today through competition
among themselves to capitalize on irrational price differences.
Some factions
among high -
frequency traders will try to interpret when other market participants are trying to buy or sell large quantities of a stock and then use their speed advantage to execute the same buy or sell before the other investor.