whipsaw Posted December 4, 2012 Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 The chief economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Andrei Kirilenko, reports in a coming study that high-frequency traders make an average profit of as much as $5.05 each time they go up against small traders buying and selling one of the most widely used financial contracts. The researchers found that more aggressive traders accounted for the largest share of trading volume and made the biggest profits. The most aggressive scored an average profit of $1.92 for every futures contract they traded with big institutional investors, and made an average $3.49 with a smaller, retail investor. Passive traders, on the other hand, saw a small loss on each contract traded with institutional investors, but they made a bigger profit against retail investors, of $5.05 a contract. Large investors can trade thousands of contracts at once to bet on future shifts in the S.& P. 500 index. The average aggressive high-speed trader made a daily profit of $45,267 in a month in 2010 analyzed by the study. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/business/high-speed-trades-hurt-investors-a-study-says.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conglom-o Posted December 4, 2012 Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 Wer oder was soll denn bitte "Hochfrenzhandel" sein? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whipsaw Posted December 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 Wer oder was soll denn bitte "Hochfrenzhandel" sein? Das ist die kleine Schwester vom HFT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conglom-o Posted December 5, 2012 Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 Das ist die kleine Schwester vom HFT Achso - dachte da eher an "the trendz are your frenz" . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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