That&#x27;s not what High-Frequency Trading means.  The terms for what what you describe are the more general &quot;electronic trading&quot; and &quot;automated trading&quot;.  They enable HFT, but are not HFT.<p>High-Frequency Trading, while also an umbrella term, virtually always refers to a subset of algorithmic trading involving arbitrage over extremely short timeframes.  HFT is not about being faster than &quot;slow expensive humans&quot; it&#x27;s about being microseconds faster than other HFTs.