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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by xwdv on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:30AM (#25441768)
If you love endless optimization and squeezing every last bit of performance out of software and hardware you’d love being an engineer in the high-frequency trade industry. I wouldn’t be surprised if someday high-frequency traders even discovered a way to send information at faster than light speeds. Can you imagine the implications? So much profit.
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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by chczdc on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:44AM (#25441868)
Infinite profit, in fact, since the information would be traveling backwards in time.
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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by logicchains on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:42AM (#25442356)
It's only infinite if it travels backwards in time faster than the other HFTs' information.
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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by chczdc on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:07PM (#25447834)
My point was to have some light fun at the optimism of ppl who think that all that’s needed to do the impossible is enough profit motivation:

“The first to break c gets infinite profit! Ready, set go!”

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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by bluGill on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:52AM (#25442441)
Plenty of science fiction FTL is based on some [made up] loop hole that you can travel faster than light while time itself goes forward for all observers at the normal rate.

Since we are talking about science fiction here you cannot ignore the above loop holes. If we were talking about the real universe as we know it, then of course you are right.

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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by xwdv on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:58AM (#25442487)
You could lose a trade before you even place it.
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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by noitpmeder on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:43AM (#25443036)
That's called installing Robinhood
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Re:High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cu... by PartiallyTyped on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:59PM (#25448565)
Sounds like insider trading with extra steps!
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