High frequency trading strategies have become a stealth tax on retail and institutional investors. While stock prices will probably go where they would have gone anyway, toxic trading takes money from real investors and gives it to the high frequency trader who has the best computer. The exchanges, ECNs and high frequency traders are slowly bleeding investors, causing their transaction costs to rise, and the investors don’t even know it.
Sal L. Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi in Toxic Equity Trading Order Flow on Wall Street (PDF) (via quotingthecrisis) (via thedirtycanuck)
Actually this is almost completely untrue. High frequency traders create more volume and liquidity in the stocks they trade - there is always someone willing to buy the stock you’re selling, or sell you the stock you want to buy. This narrows the bid/ask spread, makes the market more efficient, and decreases transaction costs for all involved.
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billda reblogged this from thedirtycanuck and added:
almost completely untrue. High frequency traders create...always someone willing
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