Re:Financial systems take a holiday
by FabHK on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:46PM
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You're going a bit extreme, but 5 auctions per week strike me as reasonable.
If the markets are trading continuously, benefits of parsing new information go to those who parse it the fastest. If the markets trade in occasional auctions, everyone shares the burden (or gift) of new information equally, and no resources are wasted in, say, building a somewhat more straight glass fibre connection between Chicago and NY, then building a sequence of microwave towers, because light moves faster in air than in fibre.
If the markets are trading continuously, benefits of parsing new information go to those who parse it the fastest. If the markets trade in occasional auctions, everyone shares the burden (or gift) of new information equally, and no resources are wasted in, say, building a somewhat more straight glass fibre connection between Chicago and NY, then building a sequence of microwave towers, because light moves faster in air than in fibre.