5 tips to avoid high-frequency traders' HFT frontal operation

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 This book attracts the imagination of all those who invest or trade in the stock market. The fear of the market being “manipulated” is everywhere. The CEO of IEX certainly hopes that his new exchange will benefit from all news media hype and panic.

However, most investors and retail traders don't have to worry. If your long-term portfolio is invested in large mutual funds or pension funds, then these funds are using dark pools that are traded on exchanges that HFT cannot see and trade.

If you are a retail trader, keep in mind that most of the orders placed by retail dealers' online brokers come from this online broker inventory. So your order will never enter the exchange. If you are using an electronic communication network ECN, most orders will not be sent to the switch.

this is 5 tips to avoid HFT frontal operation:

  1. Research your stock chart using bulk mass accumulation/distribution metrics….

5 tips to avoid high-frequency traders' HFT frontal operation was originally published on Spring

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