Recent content by london_hft

The problem with "edge" being discovered is one of the greatest issues of a successful model - there are those much more well-funded than us who hire armies of people to "front-run" models like us. So you have to be able to deal with it by organising your infrastructure around it. Main...

Hi OrderFlowDashPro... We're definitely not a big shop, just profitable - big shops are normally market makers - as some of them run very labour-intensive strategies (much more labour-intensive than our models). Although our models are labour-intensive, they are much more capital-intensive than...

As mentioned, HFT is a very broad definition - market makers are pretty much the only HFT's that are in the market at "all times", you rarely have buy-side models such as our event-driven models constantly in the market. Not being a market maker or LP and being in the market "constantly"...

Hi Tim, No worries. HFT (high frequency trading) is a quite broad category. In that category you have two main participants: 1. Price Makers (liquidity providers, banks, prop firms providing liquidity to ECNs/exchanges) - their main business is to catch arb opportunities (buy something...

Noted.. ;) Keep in mind that coding is done. No coding skills required. You will have to be able to do "big data research" - which you'll be taught. A little bit of spreadsheet skills and simple maths is sufficient.

Hi Benj, I believe that's a retail platform. You can't really execute high-frequency trades on that type of technology. Latency, trading costs (pricing, commissions, execution methodology), counter-party balance sheet, etc with similar brokers is just not made for HFT. PM me if you have any...

Hi, Don't know if this is the right forum for this, but here we go. We have set up a new office in the City for our prop trading activities, with most of the infrastructure in place (direct connectivity to bank liquidity, dedicated lines, fail over connection, desks, etc) We are planning to...