New Academic Paper Says HFT Does Increase Volatility

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May, 2012

It seems like every day now that we find a new academic paper that refutes many of the high frequency traders claims that they are helping the market.  This time we present to you a paper titled “A Multiscale Model of High Frequency Trading”   written by Andrei Kirilenko of the CFTC and Xiangqian Meng and Richard Sowers of the University of Illinois.  The  paper states:

“The main issue to which we address our model is volatility. An important question is how volatility is affected by HFT. In our stylized model,

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