I am in the business of selling high performance computing equipment. Recently, one of my products has been getting a lot of interest from the High Frequency Trading market.

Our typical customers are government agencies, defense contractors, and other NON-financial markets.

Based on this article, I can now see why there is an interest in our products from HFT companies.

I am in the uneviable position of selling my wares to customers who may have a negative effect on my personal investments in the long run.

Below is a link to an article that explains what actually has happened in the last 12+ years regarding how stock orders are managed and manipulated by small trading firms using high performance computers.

I thought this might be of interest to the forum, as there have been some mentions in the past of small blocks of stock (50 shares or 100 shares) being traded, and questions as to why.

I think this article will explain what may be going on:

http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/computerized_front_running.php

MMD21