In 2013, an estimated 70% of trades in US equities are from HFT services and in India HFT volumes occupies 34% of the total trades as per latest NSE Estimates. Most of the high frequency traders in India are either market makers or arbitragers trying to make money at micro second to milli second level.
Here is an interesting infographic which explains how High Frequency trading evolved since the start of the stock market culture and the development and regulation happened in the HFT arena.
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