Among some tool shoppers, Harbor Freight has a reputation selling cheap, substandard tools and equipment. These products may challenge that perception.

Harbor Freight Tools (HFT), the Dollar Tree of tool stores, houses the world's greatest collection of mostly adequate, excellently mediocre, and very affordable tools. That's the reputation, at least.

In its latest blog, Modern Markets Initiative discusses how the presence of high-frequency traders is not a surprise in other asset classes as some might be led to believe. “The use of high frequency ...