hft

High Frequency Trading

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...

What technical skills needed for algorithmic trading, HFT, etc?

I'm interested in getting into developing trading systems, black box, HFT, etc. My primary experience is with C# and .Net (7 years). I've also done some sockets programming. I have some experience in finance working on analysis applications (2 years). My goal is to move into developing automated trading systems for a hedge fund, bank...

HFT strategy coding on hardware

Hardware accelaration and embedded programming has mostly been used so far to parse datafeed and/or to route orders to exchange. Have there been attempts to write simpler HFT strategies such as equity market-making in hardware? Have they been successful? Which companies are doing this and what kind of programming model is used? ...

HFT / UHFT Programming Platform

Hi, Any body who wants to join in developing HFT platform in Java which is user friendly. Many of the platforms available are not that great. This could be released as a opensource project. Please respond if interested. Suminda ...