high frequency traders

A new study by Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor Jesse Blocher has seemingly debunked the myth that high-frequency traders (HFTs) are systematically setting pricing traps to lure retail traders. HFTs are the primary topic of Michael Lewis’ best-selling book “Flash Boys,”...

John Simons' Renaissance Technologies, an "ultra-secretive and highly profitable" $32 billion firm, has come up with an invention that could put the firm a couple steps ahead of high frequency traders. As Bloomberg reported, high frequency trading firms accounted for half of the volume in U.S....

When it comes to the notion of a stock market rigged by high-frequency traders, aka the so-called “Flash Boys,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer suggested his own version of fighting fire with fire. The way to win, Cramer said, is to do basic homework. Cramer doesn’t dispute author Michael Lewis’ allegations...