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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by NohatCoder on Friday August 02, 2019 @11:23AM (#20593690)
The faster you can trade, the faster you can flash crash. The current state is that bots can crash the market faster than humans can react, how does that help stability?
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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by 1e-9 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @02:03AM (#20598934)
The faster you trade, the faster you can detect and help limit or prevent a flash crash caused by others trading poorly.
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