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With culture in the industry changing, the opportunity for new talent emerges as current teams learn to digitally upskill. These days, the industry is struggling with another problem. Hft firms must utilize the latest technologies in order to achieve closetozero latency to remain competitive whoever has the fastest system wins. Highfrequency trading in the foreign exchange market. According to sources, these firms make up just about 2% of the trading firms in the u. Through high speed access to data, algorithms that can assess.
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