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I don't think he's HFT in the strict sense of the term, but rather a discretionary scalper.
To answer Incometrade -- Paul Rotter aka "The Flipper" is a bond scalper from Europe who granted an interview about 6 years ago (archived on the Trading Naked website) that made him the Keyser Söze of the internet trading world. Just recently he granted another interview here:
Platform: NinjaTrader (It's a love/hate relationship)
Trading: CL, TF, 6E
Posts: 169 since May 2010
Thanks Given: 60
Thanks Received: 314
The flipper is famous... or rather infamous. How much of a bad-ass do you have to be that the pros on the floor can feel your influence... and they whine about it?
I read that he used to to around 10% of the daily volume in bunds or something crazy, might have been the first guy to use spoofing to get his orders filled, I think he has his own hedge fund now.
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