Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed the origins of HFT. We went through what makes HFT so special in comparison to regular trading. We also layered the different types of strategies that any HFT trading system will be able to support. We talked about the history of trading systems. Our goal in this chapter was to give you a good understanding of what HFT is and what trading strategies we can use.
In the next chapter, we will talk about the main functionalities of a trading system. We will describe how to build a trading system.