Some of the stocks most commonly held by average investors are also the ones most often used in high-frequency trading and thus subject to high levels of volatility, says an investment firm that has examined the trend.
Companies such as Apple, General Electric, JPMorgan Chase and Apple are on a newly released list of stocks commonly used by computer-generated high-frequency trading (HFT) programs, according to BNY ConvergEx Group, an institutional investment advisory firm in New York.
Below is a list of the stocks most commonly used in high frequency trading.
