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The Four Horsemen Of High Frequency Trading

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December, 2012

Last year, our friend RT Leuchtkafer wrote a letter to the Financial Times where he coined the phrase the “high frequency four horsemen”.  We would like to update this four horsemen of high frequency trading phrase with some more specific HFT advantages.  The four horsemen of high frequency trading that we refer to are: data feeds, colocation, order types and rebates.  We have written extensively about how a combination of all four of these horsemen gives the HFT a unique advantage in the equity market.  Taken by themselves, each horseman does not give that much of an advantage to the HFT.  But combining all

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2 Responses to “The Four Horsemen Of High Frequency Trading”

  1. Bad Medicine: regulating high frequency traders won’t address muddling of dark pools « Software Trading
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    [...] example, unabashed Luddite Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, names the “four horsemen of high frequency trading” (as opposed to the Apocalypse) [...]


  2. Bad Medicine: regulating high frequency traders won’t address muddling of dark pools « Software Trading
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    [...] example, unabashed Luddite Sal Arnuk (@ThemisSal) of Themis Trading, names the “four horsemen of high frequency trading” (as opposed to the Apocalypse) [...]


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