Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2011 - 11:30 Capital Markets Cohen Momo New Normal Steve Cohen Trading Systems Twitter
In yet another example of just what a farce our market has become, it appears that HFT algos, no longer able to freely frontrun the market courtesy of counter HFT-measures offered by major banks and an SEC which has started sniffing around illegal HFT activity, have stooped to the second-lowest rung in the ladder: scouring through momo trader tweets on Twitter, particularly those from the StockTwits network and somehow converting that into actionable "intelligence."
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