how fast is a high frequency trade 
high frequency trading is fast it can be as fast as 10 milliseconds in some cases it can be even less to execute a large batch of trades 5the bottom lineadvances in technology have helped many parts of the financial industry evolve including the trading world computers and algorithms have made it easier to locate opportunities and make trading faster high frequency trading allows major trading entities to execute big orders very quickly although it makes things easier hft and other types of algorithmic trading does come with drawbacks notably the danger of causing major market moves as it did in 2010 when the dow suffered a large intraday drop 