While high-frequency trading firms continue to struggle in the face of the slowdown in equity markets, HFT critics are calling a new study on the practice, which has just been released by a CFTC economist, “groundbreaking” in demonstrating how high-speed traders gain their profits. [Read: Eladian Closure an Ominous Sign for High-Frequency Trading to learn more.] While the study - as we reported yesterday - has stirred up a certain amount of resistance from some market observers, who say it fails to address the benefits high-speed traders bring to the market, such as lower costs of trading for ordinary investors, vocal high-frequency opponents at Themis Trading say the paper is unique in the methods it uses... Read full story on Wall Street & Technology


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