High frequency trading (HFT) has taken off like wildfire in recent years. Nowhere is that better illustrated than in this stunning animated GIF from Nanex, a provider of streaming market data (ht: Felix Salmon).
The gif shows the rise in HFT or algorithmic trading from 2007 through early 2012. It doesn’t capture last week’s meltdown at Knight Capital, but you can see many other seminal events of recent years.
I find it strangely beautiful, like watching a fire build.
Fire…very apt analogy.
[...] Monday, I posted a lovely animated gif from Nanex showing the rise of high-frequency trading. What I failed to mention is that graph [...]
It doesn’t capture last week’s meltdown at Knight Capital, but you can see many other seminal events of recent years.
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Nowhere is that better illustrated than in this stunning animated GIF from Nanex, a provider of streaming market data (ht: Felix Salmon).
It makes you wonder if the ECNs will ever consolidate like the railroads did back in the day.