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Message started by Anupriya on 01/04/13 at 20:03:21

Title: What is the origin of High Frequency Trading?
Post by Anupriya on 01/04/13 at 20:03:21

On April 24th, 1850, Julius Reuter made a verbal agreement with a Herr Heinrich Geller { a brewer, baker and pigeon-breeder { in Aachen, to supply him with forty well-trained birds `suitable for the establishment of a pigeon carrying service between Aachen and Brussels’. The contract, nally committed to writing on July 26th of the same year, laid down the most stringent conditions for maintaining absolute secrecy in the handling of messages. Herr Geller seems to have shown a considerable measure of generosity to his enterprising but by no means wealthy client. He accommodated Reuter and his wife at his house in Aachen, and then acted as their guarantor when they took rooms in a local hotel. Every afternoon, once the Brussels Bourse had closed, or the last messages had arrived by telegraph from Paris, Reuter’s agent in Brussels copied the latest stock prices onto thin tissue paper and placed them in a small silken bag secured under the wing of one of Geller’s pigeons.

For safety, three different pigeons were normally despatched with the same message. Six or seven hours before the daily mail train arrived, the pigeons were circling over their dovecot at Geller’s house in Aachen, where a full team, consisting of Reuter and his wife, Geller and his thirteen-year-old son, Franz, caught them, extracted their messages, copied out the prices by hand and distributed them to their local circle of subscribers. Where the messages had to go further down the line, Reuter would run with them in person to the station telegraph

This is the origin of modern high frequency trading.
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