HFT dominated the NYSE

On the floor of the NYSE, high-frequency traders already rank.

Barclays is another of the big investment banks, which refused the status of "market maker" by selling his business of GTS, high-frequency trader reported 3-5 percent of the daily volume of the shares in the US.

GTS, which is a market maker in futures, commodities and fixed income products, did not disclose terms of the deal. However, HFT will become a major market maker for 1,200 listed securities, including shares of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, ExxonMobil, Twitter and Alibaba.

Barclays' sale applied last nuance in the changing landscape of stock trading. Regulatory change that paves the way for competition and the rise of automated trading lead to the end of the dominance and shrinking profits for floor traders on the NYSE, known as specialists.

"The industry is transformed into a big business data," said Ari Rubenstein, co-founder and CEO of GTS. "This will be companies that invest in technologies that will be leaders in this space." Unique to the New York Stock Exchange is that it is the only market with human Finding out the person responsible for each offer "

In 2014, Goldman Sachs sold its business DMM Dutch HFT company IMC Financial. In addition GTS and IMC, the floor also HFT firms KCG and Virtu Financial, as well as traditional market makers Brendan E Cryan and J Streicher.

The debate about whether trading floor must exist still rages. Technological problems, including flash crash in 2010 expressed concern about the very large control of the trade of machines, but the increased volatility on August 24 last year, when some of the listed shares on the NYSE opened belatedly showed the limits of human possibilities of traders led to support control of trade by computers.

"We continue to believe in the model DMM and the benefits it can bring to issuers. However, with evolving market structure, we also believe that a firm specializing in the technology market maker by GTS, is best suited for improving NYSE DMM business, "said Joseph Mecca, managing director of the business of electronic shares and loan products in Barclays.