What if you could find good value stocks in a market where the price was dictated by the financial results, not market «sentiment», momentum traders, short sellers,
high frequency trading programs or what a butterfly did in Shanghai?
Pivot points are often factored into algorithm and
high frequency trading programs.
Not exact matches
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But as we saw in the 2010 flash crash, liquidity can vanish quickly when
high -
frequency trading programs sniff a bit of trouble.
This fragmentation was accompanied and encouraged by the rise of
high -
frequency trading, a term that describes the use of
high - powered computer
programs to make hundreds or thousands of
trades per minute in an attempt to exploit miniscule inefficiencies in the markets.
Quick note: We are strictly referring to retail human - being
high -
frequency traders in this article, not proprietary commercial computer
trading programs or algorithmic
trading which sometimes results in thousands or tens of thousands of
trades a day.
High frequency trading (also known as HFT and «robot
trading») is a type of
trading that uses very fast computer
programs to enter orders and execute
trades on a market.