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title: "High-frequency trading Meaning - Get Funded Now"
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Tooling and execution

# High-frequency trading

Automated trading at very high order rates and very short holding periods, measured in seconds or less. It depends on infrastructure rather than analysis, and it is not what a retail prop account is built for.

Also called: HFT

GFN’s figure

Two GFN rules constrain very fast automation directly: every trade must stay open for at least 2 minutes, and each round turn costs $7 per lot.

In detail

## High-frequency trading, explained

Genuine high-frequency trading depends on co-located infrastructure and direct market access. What is usually described as HFT on a retail account is fast automation, which is a different thing.

Two ordinary rules make it impractical on most prop accounts regardless: a minimum holding time, and a per-lot commission that a strategy holding for seconds has to overcome on every trade.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/scalping) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More tooling and execution](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/tooling)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Tick scalping](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/tick-scalping) - Taking positions for a handful of ticks at a time, often held for seconds. Where the profit comes from a pricing lag rather than a market view, firms treat it as exploiting the environment.
- [Latency](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/latency) - The delay between an action and its effect - an order leaving your machine and reaching the venue, or a price leaving the venue and reaching your screen. Measured in milliseconds.
- [Algorithmic trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/algorithmic-trading) - Trading decisions and execution driven by code rather than by a person. It covers everything from a single automated entry rule to a fully systematic strategy running unattended.
- [Round turn](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/round-turn) - One complete trade - the entry and the exit together. Commission quoted per side has to be doubled to get the round-turn cost, which is the only figure worth comparing between firms.
- [Scalping](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/scalping) - Taking many short-duration trades for small individual gains. It depends on tight costs and reliable execution, because the spread and commission are a large share of every result.

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