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Thursday, March 28, 2024

GFT Forex’ Schlossberg: “HFT Is Destructive And Does Nothing But Frontrunning And Quote Stuffing”

Courtesy of Tyler Durden

It appears there is a pretty stark difference of opinions on market structure these days, with an increasingly greater majority seeing High Frequency Trading as the devil incarnate, while the HFT lobby, most typically in the face of one Irene Aldrigde, surprisingly defending the practices of the HFT practitioners. Regardless, today’s incremental observation on High Frequency Trading fair market practices comes courtesy of Boris Schlossberg GFT Forex, who in a CNBC interview, discussing the massive surge in FX volume which we highlighted earlier, makes the following relevant observation on HFT: “HFT traders have been incredibly destructive to the equity market because they have essentially been doing nothing but frontrunning and quote stuffing.” We wonder if Mary Schapiro was watching this particular interview.

Fast forward to 2:35 in the video.

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