The report, after providing an overview of algorithmic trading (AT) and high-frequency trading (HFT) across international financial markets, discusses the results of research analysis and the findings of a survey focusing on Hong Kong’s equity market that have been conducted by HKIMR with the...

We study whether the presence of low-latency traders (including high-frequency traders (HFTs)) in the pre-opening period contributes to market quality, defined by price discovery and liquidity provision, in the opening auction. We use a unique dataset from the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) based on...