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Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by chirau on Sunday March 10, 2019 @08:11PM (#19355660)
Hold my beer ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cZaIZ5bWc

And that was more than 6 years ago, one ticker symbol only. You can imagine now.

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Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by titanomachy on Sunday March 10, 2019 @10:16PM (#19356192)
Holy shit.

That gave me a much better sense of scale than hearing "a trade takes 200ns" or whatever. The engineering that goes into making this possible must be just insane.

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