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Benefits of high-frequency trading:
- Increased liquidity: improves market liquidity by ensuring there are always buyers and sellers
- Tighter bid-ask spreads: High-volume trading can narrow the spread between buying and selling prices, which can lower costs for investor
- Efficient price discovery: By reacting instantly to news and other data, HFT can help incorporate new information into a stock's price more quickly.
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Benefits of high-frequency trading:
- Increased liquidity: improves market liquidity by ensuring there are always buyers and sellers
- Tighter bid-ask spreads: High-volume trading can narrow the spread between buying and selling prices, which can lower costs for investor
- Efficient price discovery: By reacting instantly to news and other data, HFT can help incorporate new information into a stock's price more quickly.