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Re:Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Netwo... by mikert5671 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:08PM (#17436712)
Yeah its funny, I still read outrage about those greedy "HFT players", as if HFT was still highly relevant. It was a blip in time of the financial markets when no one had high speed trading but a few. The alpha has been washed away.
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Re:Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Netwo... by qeternity on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:17PM (#17436767)
"c[1] is a bitch" - most HFT quants past few years

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

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Re:Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Netwo... by minhazm423 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:49AM (#17448835)
> The alpha has been washed away.

whats that mean?

so what are quants on the street doing now?

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Re:Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Netwo... by qeternity on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @06:25PM (#17454080)
Quant !== HFT
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Re:Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision in Netwo... by minhazm423 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @06:33PM (#17454124)
whats the diff? What are people working on hft solutions called then?
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