A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2

Re:A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 by soup10 on Thursday April 26, 2012 @04:51PM (#3896062)

There's is nothing wrong with honest work, but if you are a highly skilled programmer and think that HFT is the most impactful/important work you can do. Then you aren't thinking hard enough.

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Re:A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 by TimGebhardt on Friday April 27, 2012 @11:09AM (#3899385)

And I think he's asking you: what should he do then since you're judging that the work he's doing isn't valuable? Impact and importance are judgement calls.

You're already making the judgement that the work he's doing isn't valuable, finish it up and judge what he should do.

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