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Markets are increasingly getting shaped by machines rather than us: <\/strong>FT mined data from top finance houses showing that high-frequency trading powered by automated trading algorithms is on the rise. The most outstanding result<\/a> of this is investors turning aggressively passive<\/strong>, not just because it\u2019s cheaper, but also because it\u2019s getting increasingly hard to beat the market with a wide pool of educated investment managers in the market (the number of CFA charter holders to listed companies<\/a>). Data from the past 20 years shows high-frequency trading volumes picking up<\/a> from the post-crisis drop-off. Meanwhile, the volume of trading done by traditional active asset managers has flatlined. This shift has also reshaped the labor market of the industry<\/strong>, as now more quants and data analysts<\/a> are recruited, while demand for traditional analysts has stagnated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Markets are increasingly getting shaped by machines rather than us: FT mined data from top finance houses showing that high-frequency trading powered by automated trading algorithms is on the rise. 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