HFT
In recent years, advances in telecommunications, computing capacity and financial software platform capabilities have seen huge growth in the field of High Frequency and Algorithmic Trading (now accounting for over 70% of all equity trades placed on US exchanges and in excess of 77% in the UK). HFT firms (which can often make more than 80 million trades in a single day……F%$K ME) often enter and exit trades in thousandths of a second, and are conservatively estimated to generate at least $21billion in profits every year.
To get under the skin of the world of high frequency trading, AllAboutAlpha.com interviewed Arzhang Kamarei. Mr. Kamarei is a Partner at Tradeworx, a quantitative investment management firm with expertise in high-frequency and medium-frequency equity market-neutral strategies. He co-founded Thesys Technologies, a Tradeworx subsidiary, in early 2009 to address the growing technology needs of high frequency traders.
