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Re:Math Whiz Trades Without Humans by Abishek_Muthian on Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:26AM (#21728832)
In India, the exchange was bribed to have the servers within the exchange for algo trading by some high profile institutional traders!

[1]https://wikipedia.org/wiki/NSE_co-location_scam

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Re:Math Whiz Trades Without Humans by zorked on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:06AM (#21728937)
Is this fraud in India? I think most stock markets sell this as a service.
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Re:Math Whiz Trades Without Humans by Abishek_Muthian on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:37AM (#21729002)
At that point SEBI (SEC equivalent) didn't permit exchanges to do it and were in the process of forming co-location guidelines, but this exchange went ahead and gave preferential treatment to few traders.
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