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Re:Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would out... by osrec on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:01AM (#15273886)
Unfortunately not, I'm afraid. I would guess they have much of their execution infrastructure in the same data centre as the exchanges they execute on.
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Re:Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would out... by dredmorbius on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:44AM (#15274047)
There's a considerable early period (1980s, 1990s) when Renaissance was turning up amazing profits when electronic trading largely didn't exist. That would suggest other methods.
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Re:Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would out... by osrec on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:03AM (#15274801)
Perhaps they were just market making back then as well? See this link: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/is-renaissance-techno...
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