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HFT = electronic trading, or at least the bulk of it. The human traders that existed before HFT firms & HFT desks at banks were largely doing the same thing that HFT firms do now -…

> I'm certain HFT vols are up in the volatility. Not sure that proves or disproves anything. You said that HFTs jump out when things get volatile. But then I show you evidence that…

My initial comment was discussing speculative trading in general, but since you mostly brought up some common anti-HFT tropes I might as well address them. > Many HFT jump out when…

I think thats an overly simplistic view of things. The market is big and many participants trade at different frequencies. Large pension funds need liquidity to move big blocks of …

If you want to read useful academic papers about trading there is one author in particular who is actually not bad - Zura Kakushadze. Most of his stuff is applicable to mid-frequen…