The Damage from Day-Trading

High Frequency Trading (HFT) is a method used by financial institutions whereby stocks are traded in fractions of a second. The traditional means of buying and selling required bankers to manually decide whether or not something was a good investment in the (semi) long run.



HFT, on the other hand, is a completely automated process that relies on computers using complex algorithms in order to decide what stocks are lucrative to buy and sell. The catch? The algorithms only look at what is a go...