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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by vannevar on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:07PM (#20589910)
Noise compared to the signal actually needed for a market to function. Markets functioned nicely on much, much longer timeframes in the past.
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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by infinite8s on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:51PM (#20590128)
They also had much higher transaction and information costs.
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