algos

We have long advocated that the dominance of High Frequency Trading (HFT) and diverse types of algorithmic models or "algos" could one day run amok and spark a massive systemic melt-down of the global financial markets, which would be on a scale that is difficult to envisage.

DK Matai: Systemic Crisis: The Rise of Machines, Casinos and Illiquidity 2010

Algorithmic trading programs, or " algos, " automatically buy and sell a wide variety of assets based on mathematical models.

Why Your Stock Portfolio Is Acting Like a Commodity Basket Jason Zweig 2010

On the other, wholly electronic exchanges, we find the dominance of the dreaded High Frequency Trading and Black Box programs where computers run "algos" and interrogate each other for price discovery.

Financial Sense 2010

Financial Times last month (I will let the word "algos" pass without comment).

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Financial Times last month (I will let the word "algos" pass without comment).

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Another obvious place for leverage to creep into the system is through futures and options purchased by the "algos", the algorithmic models that operate on pre-programmed instructions to buy or sell equities or their derivatives if certain levels in the market are broken.

The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2010

The disadvantage was that the "algos" had engaged in something other than what their claimed purpose is in the marketplace - that is, instead of providing liquidity, they intentionally probed the market with tiny orders that were immediately canceled in a scheme to gain an illegal view into the other side's willingness to pay.

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

The 'algos' that make autonomous trading decisions have to be fast, but I wonder: Is network speed ever a bottleneck?

doggdot.us 2009

Algorithms can be changed quickly too, ask anyone who works on Wall Street with their "algos".

The Medical Quack 2009

These computers are only as good as the "algos" (God, what a lame term) that are programmed in them.

doggdot.us 2009

Investment banks have seen a surge in clients trading with “algos” since early March as the latest generation has proved faster than humans at adapting to fragmented markets where liquidity can swiftly evaporate, senior executives told Reuters.

Locked-down investors aim algorithms at chaotic currency markets Tommy Wilkes, Saikat Chatterjee 2020