Meanings
nounhigh-frequency trader (plural high-frequency traders, abbreviation HFT)
plural high-frequency traders · abbreviation HFT
- businessSomeone who works in high-frequency trading.
He didn't know how much high-frequency traders were making, but he could guess from how much they were spending.
2014, Michael Lewis, Flash Boys, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 64
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