High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

Also called: HFT

Algorithmic trading at extreme speed and frequency — microsecond hold times, thousands of trades per day.

HFT is the domain of institutional players with co-located servers, FIX-API access, and infrastructure budgets in the millions. Retail ‘HFT’ is mostly a marketing label — true HFT requires latency advantages retail simply can’t access.