r/highfreqtrading

16k members
r/highfreqtrading is a subreddit with 16k members. The community frequently discusses hft, trading, data, crypto, and market making, and the most common flair used is question, code, career, criticism, and paper.
The r/highfreqtrading subreddit is a place for people of all backgrounds to join in informed discussion around high-frequency trading systems with an emphasis on sharing direct expertise and firsthand knowledge.

Popular Topics in r/highfreqtrading

#1

Hft

78 posts
#2

Trading

27 posts
#3

Data

15 posts
#4

Crypto

12 posts
#5

Market Making

12 posts
#6

Market

10 posts
#7

Latency

9 posts
#8

Fpga

8 posts
#9

System

8 posts
#10

C++

6 posts

Flair Used in r/highfreqtrading

#1
Question
: "How is life working for a HFT company"
12 posts
#2
Code
: "[FPGA #3] Building a custom order book on FPGA"
11 posts
#3
Career
: "What should I prioritise when transitioning into financial/trading engineering?"
6 posts
#4
Criticism
: "Implemented an HNSW Vector Database in C++ with AVX2 SIMD (99.3% Recall@10 on SIFT1M) , Seeking architectural feedback on concurrency model"
2 posts
#5
Paper
: "That "square-root law" and trade-sign memory thing you've heard about? Turns out they were never talking about the same clock. New paper explains why."
2 posts
#6
Crypto
: "Getting Stucked why this trade happened in algo saas"
2 posts
#7
Microstructure
: "How do prop-firm rules affect systematic or high-frequency strategies?"
1 post
#8
Forex
: "How to learn msnr to implement in forex xauusd ? Can you tell me good sources which covers this topic completely from beginner to advanced"
1 post

Member Growth in r/highfreqtrading

Yearly
+5k members(46.7%)

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Last updated: September 14, 2026