Could anyone share a few names of high frequency trading shops in the US that are not very high profile. Names like Millennium, DE Shaw, Tower Research, Worldquant 2Sigma, EWT keep popping up, but there have to be dozens more that are smaller, more specialized, or simply just keep a low profile.

QuoteOriginally posted by: traderdeluxeCould anyone share a few names of high frequency trading shops in the US that are not very high profile. Names like Millennium, DE Shaw, Tower Research, Worldquant 2Sigma, EWT keep popping up, but there have to be dozens more that are smaller, more specialized, or simply just keep a low profile.The best source of this information is specialized databases like hedgefund.net (they have a free trial).

I did some searching around, and it seems that the "high frequency" is not really a category on these lists. As close as you can get is stat arb or general arbitrage. Is HF not really considered a category on its own yet?

There is no special high frequency category because term is very ambiguous. What is hf exactly: minutes, seconds, milliseconds? Dig into stat arb funds descriptions but take into account that pretty often this is just marketing or wannabe text.

QuoteOriginally posted by: traderdeluxeCould anyone share a few names of high frequency trading shops in the US that are not very high profile. Names like Millennium, DE Shaw, Tower Research, Worldquant 2Sigma, EWT keep popping up, but there have to be dozens more that are smaller, more specialized, or simply just keep a low profile.DE Shaw was high freq in 1996. now they are ultra-low freq and hold a lot of stuff ranging from physical ownership of power plants to insurance underwriting - just google properly and you can get a lot of info. the names you mentioned are not so much about high freq, but instead more about using secrecy as a great marketing tool. my take on these secrecy firms - the higher the secrecy of making money - the higher the secrecy of not disclosing blow up situations.

Interesting thought. The shops that are most heard/talked/sought after also happen to be the most secretive ones.

I know the less well known firms. Send me an email if you would like to discuss.