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Re:Banning Some HFT Strategies Helped This Market Grow: Chart by ThomPete on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:10PM (#11247153)
The continous market delivers continues information which can then be used by HFT companies to take advantage of doing something humans can't. buy and sell in milliseconds.

This is the problem NOT that one trader gets his or her orders in before the other. At least that is how I understand the problem.

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Re:Banning Some HFT Strategies Helped This Market Grow: Chart by harryh on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:31AM (#11253502)
If my order goes in before yours then there is a good chance that my order will get filled and yours won't. The speed at which traders (automated or otherwise) get in orders is of critical importance.

If you don't understand that, then your understanding of the problem is hopelessly wrong.

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Re:Banning Some HFT Strategies Helped This Market Grow: Chart by ThomPete on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:41AM (#11259092)
That someone get an order in before another will always be a reality. It's not a problem anymore than there are winners and loosers on the stock market.

What we are talking about is specifically removing the advantages of HFT (if one consider it a problem), not removing the fact that someone can get and order in before someone else.

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