{"id":6555,"date":"2013-04-17T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:32:00","slug":"high-frequency-trading-its-not-why-you-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=6555","title":{"rendered":"High Frequency Trading: It&#039;s Not Why You Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is part II of a 3-part series about High Frequency Trading (HFT). In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderplanet.com\/articles\/view\/163667-don-t-blame-high-frequency-trading-for-your-losers\/\">Part I<\/a>, the use of computers to quickly identify and execute trades was discussed. Today, in part II, access to data is dissected.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">More than any other HFT topic, this one irritates the anit-HFT crowd the most. The market is a gathering place \u2013 be it physical or digital \u2013 where buyers and sellers of thousands of financial products meet to do business. It is argued everyone should have access to all information and data at the exact same time \u2013 the integrity of the market depends on it. Companies should disclose information in a known and predictable manner and prices of financial products should be released to everyone at the same time. No one should have access to anything prior to anyone else. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderplanet.com\/articles\/view\/163853-high-frequency-trading-it-s-not-why-you-lose\/\">here<\/a> to continue reading<\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part II of a 3-part series about High Frequency Trading (HFT). In Part I, the use of computers to quickly identify and execute trades was discussed. Today, in part II, access to data is dissected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}