end of HFT? IEX will effectively become the first HFT-free venue, and will likely attract substantial institutional interest as the risk of being frontrun by HFT parasites is no longer present. IEX says its 350 microsecond delay is just long enough to protect investors from predatory high-speed trading that can front-run the orders of slower investors. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...nted-exchange-status-sec-says-speed-race-over
Instead of giving your opinion, why don't you split your orders and route half to IEX and half to the rest and see for yourself?
I don't think the guys below pay so much for paranoia Eric Hunsader, founder of Nanex. receive a $750,000 whistleblower award from the SEC for his efforts http://www.silverdoctors.com/headli...ncial-system-is-absolutely-positively-rigged/
Before this, I could route orders to IEX. Now that IEX is an "exchange," what does that imply? Does it mean that I can now see IEX quotes in the national best bid/offer? Why does this become an HFT killer when I could route orders to IEX before it became an exchange?
From my understanding they'll now be reflected in the NBBO, meaning if they have the best price, the order will have to be routed to them. https://chatwithtraders.com/ep-075-dan-aisen-iex-trading/ Good listen. This was before they got exchange status but seems they were the only exchange ever to have this much criticism, seems mostly from the other exchanges which makes you wonder.
http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index...t-regulators-eric-hunsader-intertview.300840/ Eric Hunsader says HFTs are death from many small paper cuts and since its proven that HFTs do not provide liquidity to the markets, when markets need it...
HFT's are always an interesting target although some may argue that they don't hurt the little guy I think they do, Flash Boys was an interesting book, definitely a good read.....
Note that IEX doesn't apply the same speed bump to their own smart router, which is faster. And for that you have to pay them extra... just a different way to skim some fees off. My limited experience with IEX was that the fills were ok but the fees were pretty high, so it wasn't as good as other options.