If you're like most people, you want to have some money around when you retire so you can enjoy your remaining years. So you buy mutual funds and invest in a 401(k), hoping to get 8% annual returns.

Fierce competition on speed is a defining feature of modern financial markets. In response to a price signal with certain consequences, a race among market participants occurs based on how quickly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A University of Michigan doctoral candidate has estimated the potential annual profit from "latency arbitrage" on the S&P 500, a trading tactic at the heart of Michael Lewis' ...

Over the past few weeks, IEXupgraded the IEX Signal, a proprietary model that IEX uses to predict when and how a stock price is about to change, and expanded the IEX Signals protective benefits to our ...

In today’s stock market, the large stock exchanges often brag that spreads have never been lower and commissions have never been cheaper. The popular investing app Robin Hood even offers free trading, ...

The sworn enemy of high frequency trading, Themis Trading, has a new "white paper" out titled " Latency Arbitrage: The Real Power Behind High Frequency Trading." In my opinion, this paper is better ...

There's a new trend in trading: going slow. The Chicago Stock Exchange this week outlined plans to adopt what it calls a Liquidity Taking Access Delay, a 350-microsecond delay for those who trade ...