A recent academic study, "The Externalities of High Frequency Trading", published by Professor Mao Ye, Jiading Gai and Chen Yao of the University of Illinois, finds that increasing the speed of trading from microseconds to nanoseconds does not lead to narrower spreads and increased trading volumes, but does increase cancellation/execution ratios and short term volatility while decreasing market depth.
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