Sentence examples for fast traders from inspiring English sources
In your July 18 front-page article about high-frequency trading, "Fast Traders, in Spotlight, Battle Rules," you write, "The S.E.C. has already put in place new stock circuit breakers to stop another flash crash".
DealBook Fast Traders Tell Their Side of the Story | High-frequency trading firms, known for their secrecy, are "stepping out of the shadows" as part of a lobbying effort to keep regulators at bay, The New York Times reports.
BLOOMBERG NEWS A Proposal to Increase Competition Among Fast Traders | Chris Stucchio, a math Ph.D. who once worked at a high-frequency trading firm, told Bloomberg Businessweek that if stocks were allowed to be priced in increments smaller than one penny, it would force high-frequency traders to compete on price, possibly benefiting retail investors.
Scott Patterson has found that today "fast traders make money by picking up pennies and nickels" on the spread.
WALL STREET JOURNAL Taking on the Lightning-Fast Traders | Two stockbrokers at a small firm called Themis Trading have emerged as leading critics of high-frequency trading, arguing that these computerized stock transactions have helped make the market less safe for ordinary investors, The New York Times writes.
Because these investors usually have less knowledge about their stocks, faster traders can make easier profits trading against them.
IEX's computers will be set up with a tiny delay designed to prevent the fastest traders from getting a jump on everyone else.
But the committee concluded that regulators had failed to gather enough data or build the expertise needed to allay a widespread assumption among professional investors that faster traders have an advantage and profit at the expense of ordinary investors.
When faster traders emerged in the 2000s and began to torpedo Timber Hill, he pivoted into the brokerage business.
There, a delay between the orders might be set up, preventing fastest traders to achieve an advantage.
Orders are processed at the same time, rather than as they arrive, so the fastest trader no longer takes everything.
