High Frequency Trading Tool for Individual Investors to Fight Wall Street

By Jon C. Ogg Updated May 9, 7:01AM EDT · Published May 8, 2:12PM EDT

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The term high frequency trading (HFT) might sound like to millions or billions of dollars per year in trading profits to many Wall Street trading professionals and hedge fund managers. To many Main Street investors and retail investors HFT brings up more than just controversy. Some consider it unfair, and some even consider HFT along the same lines as theft. A new tool called the High Frequency Search Engine may offer small traders a better chance to succeed when competing against algorithms used by large investors.

We would point out that a press release sent to us signals that the tool is for small traders. The product link at Modulus Financial Engineering is not as “small investor” oriented and the pricing and availability is shown to be available for white label licensing by brokerages, financial institutions and professional traders.

Today’s press release also signals that this search engine is an improvement over the company’s previous version released six years ago. The new version is said to be more powerful and capable of analyzing over a half-million stock, options, futures or forex securities to return accurate investment advice with a high probability of significant return in less than a few milliseconds.

Modulus represents on its website that its top clients include TD AmeriTrade, ETrade, eSignal, Bank of America, Barclays, Chase and others as well as professional traders from around the world. The press release indicates that the firm plans to license the technology to brokerage firms and other technology firms on a white label basis.

Will this really offer retail investors, day traders, and professional traders a legitimate tool against the high frequency trading shops that literally take out millions and billions of dollars from the stock market? Maybe.

Be advised that we have not seen a demo of this product and we are certainly not endorsing it. What we are interested in for the sake of the public is any tool that can take back some of the advantages in the financial markets that the little guy has lost to sophisticated Wall Street trading firms over the decades.

About the Author Jon C. Ogg →

Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.