Julie Young is an experienced financial writer and editor. She specializes in financial analysis in capital planning and investment management. Sydney Saporito / Investopedia A frequency distribution ...

High frequency trading (HFT) is controversial. Some investors say it lets people capitalize off of opportunities that may vanish quite quickly. Others say high frequency trading distorts the markets.

The number of lines illuminated on a CRT in one second, which is based on how fast the electron beam moves across the screen from left to right and back again. For example, a resolution of 400 lines ...

DEFINITION: A fast-acting demand response service, required in order to cope with large deviations in frequency caused by the loss of power generation on the grid. The service can respond in under a ...

Measured in hertz (cycles per second), rate of repetition of changes / waves. The term frequency is also used for range (band) on the radio frequency spectrum, such as 800 MHz, 900 MHz or 1900 MHz.

Buying and selling large quantities of stocks in split seconds, and making pennies per share. High-frequency trading (HFT) is performed entirely by computer algorithms that look for and take advantage ...

High frequency trading (or HFT) is a form of advanced trading platform that processes a high numbers of trades very quickly using powerful computing technology. It can be used to either find the best ...