Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off...
by bumby on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:37PM
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I don't want to oversimplify your stance, I'm just trying to distill it to something I understand. In the analogy above, would you think this tipping point where the signal is no longer improved is related to the volume of the buyer compared to the overall volume?
In other words, Warren Buffet buying a huge portion of a penny stock will drive past that frequency tipping point easily while lil ol' me buying a few shares of an index fund will have effectively little to no impact?
This also skates around the issue of defining what a Nyquist rate of the market even means in real terms. But, if you want to use control theory to model the market, it's important to know that faster does not inherently mean more accurate. In the simple analogy, increasing trading frequency will improve measurement results, up to a point, after which it will actually likely result in decreasing accuracy.
I've also ignored the whole conflation of frequency and group delay in these analogies to keep things simpler as well.