In a study Knight Capital Group examines the significant structural changes in US Equity Markets and how those changes affect traders and investors. Prices are nothing but the result of traders’ order submission discretion, which in turn is influenced by overall market structure. To download the excellent report, click here. Mentioned below is some synopsis from the study pertaining to retail intraday traders.
Average trade size fell as electronic systems allowed traders to easily divide orders to obtain better executions.
Quote traffic increased substantially.
The ratio of orders canceled to orders executed more than tripled in recent years, this can be linked to notorious pinging by High Frequency Trading algorithms.
With advancements in technology, the old problems of liquidity search, informed trading, front-running, quote-matching, and price-discrimination can be handled much effectively.
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Amazing… high frequency trading will leave no scope for daytraders.
very gud info
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