High Frequency Trading

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Published on 2009-07-24T11:05:57Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 18:43 UTC
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Over the last couple of weeks i have come across lots of articles about high frequency trading. They all talk about how important computers and software is to this but since they are all written from a financial point of view there is no detail about what does software do?

Can anyone explain from a programmers point of view what is high frequency trading? and why is computer/software so important in this field?

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