Monday, June 14, 2010

The stocks the HFT machines trade

Forget the Dow 30. The 25 companies listed here were the favorites of high frequency traders in the U.S. during the past two years, based on a recent study by Woodbine Associates of Stamford, Connecticut.
Company Name (symbol) Trading Volume* (millions of shares)
Citigroup (C) 507.8
Ford Motor Co. (F) 132.7
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) 116.7
General Electric Co. (GE) 90.3
Intel Corp. (INTC) 73.0
Pfizer (PFE) 71.5
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) 68.2
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) 64.8
Cisco Systems (CSCO) 55.2
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) 45.4
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) 44.4
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) 39.6
Alcoa (AA) 38.3
AT&T (T) 30.9
Oracle Corp. (ORCL) 30.4
Regions Financial Corp. (RF) 29.5
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) 29.4
Fannie Mae (FNM) 29.2
Motorola (MOT) 26.8
Yahoo! (YHOO) 26.6
Dell (DELL) 26.4
EMC Corp. (EMC) 24.3
Apple (AAPL) 23.7
Morgan Stanley (MS) 21.2
Home Depot (HD) 18.8

10 comments:

  1. oh my, stocks are down again, huge reversal day! oh my! where is "oh my crowd"? they gonna come out and start pissing all over again! oh my! i am out of bear pictures!

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  2. omg, crashing again!!!!!!!

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  3. OH MY, INDEED
    OH MY......!!

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  4. I'm melting!!!!!
    SPX 820 by July 14th 2010.
    Book it... Done

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  5. P, get it over with and rename the blog
    OOOOOOOOOOH MYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!


    You know you want to!

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    Me thinks you'll be taking her for a spin soon.

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  7. LOL , good one, anon 4:11

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  8. haha!!!!!

    I'll have to use that picture!!!

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