4% of Market Trading Caused by Algo
Amazing! A single computer program that placed orders, and then canceled them, made up 4% of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week. The algorithm never executed a single trade, but placed orders in 25-millisecond bursts involving about 500 stocks, before stopping at 10:30am on Friday. The ultimate goal of such programs […]
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