New Perspective: Wake Up and Smell the High Frequency Trading
The opening panel at this month's FPL Americas Trading Conference, hosted by FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL), meant to discuss liquidity access. It ended up being little more than a reality check.
Institutional investors these days feel like they've been dropped into a snake pit, thanks to the proliferation of high-frequency trading (HFT). They desperately want to be given a rope so they can climb out, go back to block trading, and forget about HFT forever. But it's not going to happen, according to
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