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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by kortilla on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:18AM (#20592120)
A perfect market where all participants get information at the same time does not exist.

>This profit is immediately realised by the increase in price of all commodities globally.

This would only hold if there weren’t profitable short trades. The profit can also be realized by the decrease in global commodities that would have been slower before.

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by justinjlynn on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:32AM (#20592194)
I'm sorry for the confusion, I should've reviewed my post before submitting - I have edited that section extensively for, hopefully, greater clarity of thought.
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