All About High-Frequency Trading (All About Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Durbin's work provides a great foundation to better understand the exciting and exotic world of high frequency trading (HFT). In addition, for you IT fans (like me), he provides an interesting description of the IT requirements to build a successful HFT platform. Finally, in the last section of the book, Durbin covers some of the commonly debated pros and cons of HFT and its affect on market quality.
Durbin readily admits throughout the work that he isn't advertising the book as the 'secret sauce' to HFT. But that's ok: as an experienced industry player in the area of institutional trading on the 'buyside', you're getting a lot of bang for your buck and would offer that he is outlining the issues correctly and all the while keeping the reader engaged in the material. Did I need to read this book? Nope, this is part of my day job, but I like the topic and found little nuggets along the way that made it worth the read. Also, there is a whole section on IT that I have not been directly exposed to which I really enjoyed.
Finally, Durbin's background at Citadel, among other places, makes him a very credible author and in better postion to write a book on this topic than others I've seen around.
Bottom line? I think there is something in this book for everyone who is interested in the topic.


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