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Re:Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC by true_religion on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:34PM (#11212373)
What new information?

I think the above poster meant to imply that the 10ms delay would cover all market transactions, so if you put in an order now, then no one knows it till the next 10ms stop post.

Essentially its buffering all the data then releasing it at once, so it's not a truly continuous system anymore.

Re:Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC by lightcatcher on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @10:33PM (#11214863)
> What new information?

Trades occurring at other locations. Even if the other location are operating in discretized time, there's going to be variability in how fast different market participants can transmit information from one location to another. From Wolfram Alpha, Tokyo to NYC is 36ms at speed of light in vacuum and 51ms at speed of light in fiber, so someone with a faster network could be multiple discretized ticks ahead.

Re:Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC by harryh on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:47PM (#11212458)
> What new information?

Stuff that happens in the real world. The stuff that all security prices are eventually based on. It's not a closed system you know?

Re:Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC by true_religion on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @02:58PM (#11212541)
Ah, that's why I wanted an example. Your answer is fairly obvious, but it's pretty absolute too so there's no way to ask questions like "is this information actually going to affect the bid size or price of a bidder?" or "is this event important but infrequent, like quarterly reporting?"

For example, infrequent important events will result in a race for people to submit at the last microsecond, but because they're infrequent 99% of the time the 10ms buffering will effectively change the behaviour of market participants.

Re:Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC by mrchicity on Thursday March 03, 2016 @02:30AM (#11215513)
At the level of a penny, which is what the minimum price change is on most US stocks, almost anything can affect a sophisticated market-maker or proprietary trader's pricing: information in the stock's own order book, the price of related securities globally like the same stock trading in foreign markets, prices of correlated stocks, index futures prices around the world, his or her risk exposure in that stock and others in a portfolio, foreign exchange and interest rate market shifts, news feeds, sentiment analysis of online sources like twitter, company exposure to oil or other commodity price changes, etc. etc.