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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by goatinaboat on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:44AM (#20592248)
Pretty much everything at sub-second resolution is pointless.

Some people think so, but the truth is you will simply shift the competition from “as fast as possible” to “within as few picoseconds after exactly one second” or whatever the limit is.

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by nathan_long on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:59AM (#20593467)
Unless you add random delays to each trade.
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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by gpderetta on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:22PM (#20594754)
Ad long as you can model the latency statistically people will still try to play the game. It will be much riskier of course, and I'm not sure why that would be a better outcome.
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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by goatinaboat on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:22AM (#20593668)
That uncertainty will only increase the spread and retail investors - ordinary folks like you or I - will pay for it.
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