HFTs vs. Human Traders in the chaotic market
1 min readJun 20, 2018
After the 2008 crash and the Lehman Brothers collapse, HFTs or High Frequency Trading were introduced to the market. Exchanges like the NYSE gave incentives to companies to add liquidity to the market, which resulted in the popularity of HFTs.
The HFTs were introduced most importantly to increase liquidity and also to remove the bid ask spread. However, HFTs disadvantages could be seen…
