High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils?

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Page Title:High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils? – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils?
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/high-frequency-traders-angels-or-devils/
Published Date:October 10, 2013
Accessed Date:February 17, 2025

High frequency trading is not the bane of capital markets that critics make it out to be, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils?” author Jeffrey G. MacIntosh weighs the effects of lightening fast, automated trading on capital markets and finds that, overall, it is having beneficial effects.

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