1.       How do those machines interpret and react to the report results so fast?
2.       Why does the market react so strongly to news that doesn’t seem to illicit such a response?
3.       Overall, does HFT make life more difficult for farmers?

Liquidity is the most pivotal element of HFT (High frequency trading) vocabulary. Without it, most profit opportunities in high frequency would be gone. The name of the game is getting in and out quickly while minimizing risk and collecting as much edge (profit) as possible. In this article, we’ll go over several HFT strategies that revolve around this idea, and the biggest users of such strategies.

How fast is the speed of light? How many feet between Chicago and New York? These are need to know questions for trading infrastructure specialists that get information to high frequency traders. One such infrastructure specialist, Spread, estimates that every extra foot of fiber-optic cable adds about 1.5 nanoseconds of delay and each mile equates to an extra 8 microseconds. Just as a reminder, there are 1,000 milliseconds in a second, 1,000 microseconds in a millisecond, and 1,000 nanoseconds in a microsecond. So, if you blink, you may miss thousands of trades.