A review of how high-frequency trading manipulation works, who pays for it, and how it is detected, focused on what retail investors can see in free minute-level data. A detector tested on 20 U.S. stocks and funds raised about five alerts per stock per day, a rate that shuffled data matched, so its alerts flag unusual trading.
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