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Re:This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks ... by jussij on Thursday May 09, 2013 @02:19AM (#5679075)
So by making the system trade faster, they have made the market less stable and opened it up to outside manipulation.

Hardly what you call progress.

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Re:This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks ... by marshray on Thursday May 09, 2013 @03:13AM (#5679197)
Outside "manipulation" has always been a force in markets. Perhaps HFT is making the system faster to recover to false information?

Or maybe it's just another zero-sum scheme for moving money from the rich to the very rich. Heck I dunno.

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