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Thursday, May 9, 2013

HFT (High Frequency Trading): 1/2 Second Stretched into 6 Minute Video

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The link below may not give you a warm and fuzzy feeling about the stock market but it is certainly worth viewing.  This video from Nanex a research firm, shows visually a half second of high frequency trading in only one stock JNJ slowed down into a 6 minute video so that the human eye can comprehend what's going on.  Seventy percent of the stock market daily volume is trading in this manner.



Here is a link to the Huffington Post article about the video above:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/video-half-second-high-frequency-trading_n_3245999.html




Trade well my friends

Alan