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Re:Banning Some HFT Strategies Helped This Market Grow: Chart by jakozaur on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:51AM (#11246470)
0. Just to be fair I think any discrete time auction would reduce HFT. No matters less if it will be 100ms or 15 minutes. Just a parameter that you can optimize based on your market.

1. Not all startups are equal, but quite a few will create some lasting value.

2. Unsure if most of this career alternatives will ever give that sort of gains. The question is where the gains come from? Inefficiencies in trading strategies of your retirement fund? Maybe those inefficiencies are always present if humans type orders? Maybe we should design stock market with human first approach, not HFT exploitable?

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Re:Banning Some HFT Strategies Helped This Market Grow: Chart by fr0sty on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:59AM (#11246543)
> Just to be fair I think any discrete time auction would reduce HFT.

But is the reduction of HFT qua HFT really the goal? Making a market low-frequency will by definition reduce/eliminate HFT as a strategy but you will still have a lot of trading activity done by well capitalized companies using lots of expensive equipment. They will just use different strategies.

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