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Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading

Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading

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Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading

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Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press

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The American journal of sociology, 2018-05, Vol.123 (6), p.1635-1683

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English

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press

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Drawing on interviews with 194 market participants (including 54 practitioners of high-frequency trading or HFT), this article first identifies the main classes of “signals” (patterns of data) that influence how HFT algorithms buy and sell shares and interact with each other. Second, it investigates historically the processes that have led to three...

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Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2101973117

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2101973117

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ISSN

0002-9602

E-ISSN

1537-5390

DOI

10.1086/697318

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