easy · Market Microstructure

A high-frequency trader (HFT) notices that the price of a stock has just risen on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), but the price on a smaller exchange like BATS has not yet updated. The HFT buys on BATS and sells on NYSE milliseconds later. This is an example of:

  1. Wash Trading
  2. Fundamental Trading
  3. Latency Arbitrage
  4. Front-Running

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