Index Wealth Management

While price movements in financial markets are largely unpredictable, there are periods where volatility tends to cluster. The flash crash shows that high frequency trading does have the potential to heighten volatility given the right circumstances, however knowing when these circumstances are present can only be detected in hindsight. There are structural changes that are occurring in the global economy, technology and securities trading that have the potential to make the recent increase in market volatility a new permanent standard.