Comment by bluecalm
3 hours ago
>>The social justice / millenial part of me hates this for being funded by high frequency trading, of all things. What a colossal waste of resources.
It's more efficient now than it used to be - by which I mean the total taken by HFTs is lower than what people used to pay in spreads and commisions. Price discovery is better (you get closer to a fair price if you trade) and spreads are lower. The whole industry that used to prey on spreads and ignorance of retail investors is gone. What not to like about HFT?
The upwards money funnel?
Maybe they're both bad?
I work for an HFT (not Jane Street) so I am biased, but we (the HFT industry as a whole) are quite small compared to big tech.
I’d estimate the total global HFT revenue to be 100 billion dollars a year, which is less than Apple and a tiny percentage of all big tech combined.
what do you mean by bad? you want someone to be on the other side of every investment you make...for free? why don't you do this yourself?
How is this any more of an upwards money funnel than the prohibitively expensive spreads and commissions that hindered lay access to the markets?