High-frequency traders to market: you need us
The ‘flash crash’ in New York of May 6 highlights not the danger posed by high-frequency quants, but the extent to which markets (including Asia’s) depend on them.
It is fashionable to blame the events of May 6 on the New York Stock Exchange, when intra-day trading sent blue-chip names like Proctor & Gamble into the ranks of penny stocks, on high-frequency traders and their electronic algorithms.
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