High-frequency trading in Amsterdam

What is the high-frequency trading market like in Amsterdam?

Amsterdam is one of the core global centres for high-frequency trading. High-frequency trading captures very short-lived pricing edges by being faster than competitors to observe and act. The edge is largely engineering: network path, kernel bypass, and increasingly FPGA implementation of the decision hot path. Typical holding horizon is microseconds to seconds, hiring concentrates on hft / low-latency engineer, quant trader, quant researcher, and 5 of the firms we track run a Amsterdam desk. Pay sits at roughly 74% of the New York benchmark for the equivalent role and seniority, quoted in EUR.