He called high-frequency traders "the natural enemy" of big investors like hedge funds and mutual funds. ❋ Scott Patterson (2011)
One CFTC commissioner, Bart Chilton , has called high-frequency traders "cheetahs," in homage to their speed. ❋ Jenny Strasburg (2011)
Hedge funds, mutual funds and other big investors have been looking for ways to fight back against the powerful computer systems used by so-called high-frequency traders. ❋ Jenny Strasburg (2011)
Half of a thousandth of a second may not matter to some, but it can mean the difference between a profit and a loss to the many traders engaging in so-called high-frequency trading, which often measures time in the microsecond--one millionth of a second. ❋ Donna Kardos Yesalavich (2011)
One surprising element of the fall-off in liquidity is that one key set of players actually appears to be more active in recent months: so-called high-frequency traders. ❋ Tom Lauricella (2011)
Already a target of opposition from trading industry lobbyists and unlikely to advance in Congress, the proposed tax was designed to curb short-term trading—namely, high-frequency trading—that some Democrats worry is hurting the U.S. financial market. ❋ Kristina Peterson (2011)
So-called high-frequency trading firms drew suspicions following the gyration, but an internal report by German exchange operator Deutsche Börse AG, completed this month but not widely circulated, determined that such participants' rapid buying and selling actually helped absorb some of the market shock. ❋ Jacob Bunge (2011)
A third major challenge for the SEC involves the rise of so-called high-frequency trading, in which investment firms use powerful computers to detect razor-thin market inefficiencies and then take advantage of them by trading large volumes of shares in mere milliseconds, the report says. ❋ Unknown (2011)
So-called high-frequency trading—a method of rapidly buying and selling securities—has come under scrutiny in recent years as slower-moving investors have raised concerns around being outpaced, and financial markets have increasingly come to rely on the liquidity offered by such firms. ❋ Jacob Bunge (2011)
The lingo tends to be concrete and calls for mostly very common words so-called high-frequency vocabulary. ❋ M.D. Mel Levine (2002)
Exacerbating the situation is a relatively new and often predatory practice called high-frequency trading, or HFT. ❋ Unknown (2011)
For the past year, market watchers have had a growing unease about something called high-frequency trading. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a vibrant embrace, two hearts sing and enter into a mutually conceived high-frequency vibration. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)
After the performance, I arrive home with a vibrant, high-frequency pulse running from the top of my head to the bottom of my spine. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)
Jeff Shaw, head of trading at Timber Hill, a registered market maker, says for example that if nonmarket makers have a time-limit requirement for bids and offers and market makers don't, that would motivate more high-frequency traders to register. ❋ Donna Kardos Yesalavich (2010)
"What it really would do is pick winners between certain classes of market participants," said Richard Gorelick, chief executive of RGM Advisors LLC, a high-frequency firm based in Austin, Texas, that isn't a registered market maker. ❋ Donna Kardos Yesalavich (2010)
The system is implanted laparoscopically and uses high-frequency, low-energy electrical impulses to intermittently block vagal activity (therefore this has also been referred to as VBLOC therapy). ❋ Unknown (2009)
About seventy percent of Wall Street trades already qualify as "high-frequency." ❋ Mary Bottari (2011)
Market observers say the merged entity will have access to a combined US$1.9 trillion market that could pose a threat to major Asian rivals in Hong Kong and Tokyo by luring away big fee-paying clients like high-frequency traders and companies seeking to raise capital in deep and liquid markets. ❋ P.R. Venkat (2011)
Paul had High Frequency when his parents, wife, children and [pastor] came into the room to have their [weekly] [chili] dinner. ❋ Yum--cake Balls (2011)
I decided to use the High [Frequency] ([HF]) radio last night and try [my luck] at reaching Japan. ❋ Tomorrow's World (2009)
[Yeah man], they were really [playing the high frequencies] [that time]. ❋ Sir El Of B (2010)