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Re:Humidity in New Jersey impeding radio transmissions and s... by coldtea on Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:17AM (#17461868)
>Then I’ll settle over the counter, directly with my counterparties, and disintermediate your marketplace

Not if that is made illegal.

>those looking to introduce complexity to solve a non-issue

Because HFT is not a huge complexity in itself?

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Re:Humidity in New Jersey impeding radio transmissions and s... by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:34AM (#17471679)
> Not if that is made illegal

That would be a massive change to the American securities markets. Enough so that it might destroy them. “You can buy or sell your securities at competing venues” is a basic tent of finance.

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Re:Humidity in New Jersey impeding radio transmissions and s... by hueving on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:55PM (#17476422)
Your suggestion is to make it illegal to sell a security at a specific price?
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