Tabb Predicts "Downright Corruption" Will Occur in HFT

Mark Melin

Published onAugust 19, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of the Tabb Group, has a bone to pick with US Senator Carl Levin over high frequency trading (HFT).

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HFT issues: Eliminating payment for order flow

Tabb said that eliminating payment for order flow, a contentious issue in HFT, would in fact create more challenges and magnify conflicts of interest. Levin has proposed eliminating the little known and often undisclosed practice of stock brokerage firms accepting cash payments from trading venues for investor stock orders.

Jeff Specher, chairman of the ICE derivatives exchange, which purchased the New York Stock Exchange in 2013, vocally called for...

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

Tabb Predicts "Downright Corruption" Will Occur in HFT

HFT issues: Eliminating payment for order flow

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