| High Frequency Trading (HFT), through systematic computer based algorithms by gauging market movements and eventually acting upon pre-defined protocols, has become a popular mode commodity derivatives trading.
Such techniques initially introduced in fixed income, currency, and equity markets are now increasingly being applied to trading in bullion, energy, and the agricultural commodities. HFT has contributed to a surge in the number of trades in NYMEX crude from under 1 million in 2005 to almost 42 million in 2011, and in CBOT corn from 133,000 to 10.7 million...............................................Full Article: Source
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