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Re:Insights into High Frequency Trading from the Virtu IPO [... by maxerickson on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:15PM (#14269342)
Traditionally market makers do more than match orders from other parties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker

This is because sellers don't always want to wait around for buyers and vice versa.

Sellers that are worried they have poor market visibility can just put in a limit order that they believe represents a fair price.

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