Market participants have speculated high-frequency and algorithmic trading magnified the wild swing.

But algorithmic trading has had the opposite effect on financial and corporate news.

Banks regularly use algorithmic trading strategies and have high-frequency trading firms as clients.

Those include global securities, algorithmic trading, emerging markets, commodities and derivatives.

It does not engage in high frequency or algorithmic trading.

Some traders attributed the buying to high-speed computer-driven algorithmic trading.

According to Sussman's report, dealers are beginning to build up their own algorithmic trading systems.

The first firms to use algorithmic trading for Treasuries were hedge funds in the interdealer market.

Rather than restricting the use of algorithmic trading, the CFTC should improve its oversight, he said.

Automated and algorithmic trading by hedge funds and big banks has grown rapidly in recent years.

It said that any of the hundreds of other algorithmic trading firms could be at fault.

They also include high-frequency algorithmic trading, he said.

High frequency trading and algorithmic trading accounts for about half of all the volume in oil markets.

On Feb. 14, LSE launched its Millenium Exchange platform to offer investors faster execution and enable algorithmic trading.

Computerised trading and methods such as algorithmic trading and HFT transact a huge number of trades in microseconds.

For a prop shop like Vectra, which sometimes uses algorithmic trading, access to liquidity is always a concern.