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Japan's new rules on high-frequency trade set for April

Exchange operator and government watchdog both keeping a closer eye

TOKYO -- The Japan Exchange Group will impose new rules on high-frequency trading in April to make the market more transparent, as well as to reduce price volatility and prevent market manipulation.

HFT companies use computer algorithms to automatically place thousands of orders a second. They set up their trading computers near an exchange's servers in a practice called co-location to minimize any lags in transactions.

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