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Has high frequency trading (HFT) been a net benefit or cost to society?
Various studies have demonstrated the very large and growing influence of high frequency trading (HFT) on the markets. HFT firms are clearly making a great deal of money from somewhere, and it stands ...
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How can we reverse engineer a market-making algorithm (HFT)?
Consider a market participant $A$ who is mechanically following an automated liquidity providing algorithm (HFT) in a number of large cap stocks on a specific exchange.
Assume furthermore that we are ...
