Posts Tagged ‘high frequency trading’

High frequency scapegoating

Monday, September 5th, 2011

The Futures Industry Association held a panel on high frequency trading on Thursday in Chicago titled, “Perspectives on High Frequency Trading and its Overall Impact on the Market.”

The three practitioners on the panel did their best to dispel some of the myths surrounding high frequency trading helped by moderator John Lothian and had a sympathetic audience of members of the Chicago trading community but for those who view this practice as potentially disruptive, I am not sure they gained any believers.

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Co-location: What’s next?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

With high frequency trading now one of the most buzzed-about issues in the industry, co-location, a technique used by many high frequency traders of placing trading servers near an exchange’s matching engine to reduce order message times, is now a hot topic too. The Futures Industry Association hosted a panel of experts yesterday in Chicago to discuss co-location: its growth, its advantages and challenges on the horizon. (more…)

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High frequency traders get an ally

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

With high frequency trading getting a lot of (mostly negative) attention these days from Washington lawmakers and the media, the Futures Industry Association (FIA) and a coalition of trading firms have formed a group to advocate for the interests of firms trading for their own capital.  The FIA Principal Traders Group (PTG) is a forum for firms trading their own capital to identify and discuss issues confronting the principal traders community. PTG has appointed as its spokesperson industry veteran Jim Overdahl, former chief economist for the SEC and CFTC.

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