(Futures magazine - Irene Aldridge) Over the past two years, public debate has increased on whether to regulate the maximum frequency of trading. The idea of regulation stems from a perception that the so-called high-frequency traders can move in and out of positions in milliseconds, “flipping” capital from one stock to another using market orders before the wider population of traders barely can blink. This perceived high speed of trading has been thought by some to disadvantage traders without access to high-speed technology, and regulators have been called in to level such inequalities.
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