this is an animated image showing high-frequency-trading taking over stock market from January 2007 to January 2012. I hope the same thing won't happen to the futures market.

"The GIF, courtesy of market research firm Nanex, by way of Felix Salmon and ThinkProgress, shows the rapid rise of high-frequency trading in the past few years. It takes a while to get to the climax, but the fireworks display at the end is worth the wait."

Mark Gongloff: Wall Street Robots Have Taken Over The Market, Horrifying GIF Shows

the image was too big to be uploaded, view it at the link above.

This is already discussed here:

HFT High Frequency Trading So i keep hearing traders complain about HFT, about how its changing everything. There's a ton of posts about it all over the web, Cramer even complains about it alot. I want to know how many people really believe that trading has become difficult …

Please don't create split topics.

Mike