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Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by Phillipharryt on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:32AM (#19672462)
Ok well technically front-running is a term used in the industry to specify a type of trading, it's not illegal in itself. However, you can front-run in an illegal way. Like driving a car isn't illegal but you can do it in an illegal manner. The act of front-running becomes illegal when you do it based on insider information, much like the driving becomes illegal when you speed.

I hope this clears things up.

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Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by OldManAndTheCpp on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:40AM (#19672771)
To be very clear to all readers: front running is illegal. No one in the automated trading industry refers to the non-illegal trading that they do with a reference to illegal trading.
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Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by tanderson92 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:41PM (#19677094)
As discussed elsewhere in this thread (search my nick), "no one" refers to frontrunning as encompassing both legal and illegal cases except the author of the definitive textbook on market microstructure.
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Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by Phillipharryt on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:16PM (#19704267)
Thank you, I gave up arguing it and was getting massively downvoted for my comments.
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Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by Phillipharryt on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:28AM (#19673032)
ok
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