What is High-Frequency Trading? | in under 5 minutes

High Frequency Trading is like Quantum Mechanics, anyone who says they fully understand it doesn't.

But hopefully now you have a brief and broader understanding of what High Frequency Trading is, and what these traders do.

As I imagine we'll hear much more about HFT in and across the news throughout this next decade.

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For sources and great supplmentary reading I recommend:
Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis
Flash Boys: Not so Fast, an insider's perspective, by Peter Kovac

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