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Re:For the Love of Money by dllthomas on Sunday January 19, 2014 @05:44PM (#7086402)
It's not investment, but it may be legitimate market making. If the only people in the market are investors, it is significantly harder for me to liquidate my stock when I need to and significantly harder for me to buy stock when I want to.
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Re:For the Love of Money by judk on Sunday January 19, 2014 @09:55PM (#7087264)
Not really. If there aren't investors willing to buy your stock within a few minutes, there won't be any HFTs willing to buy either. HFTs just bridge that gap in time, for a fee.
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Re:For the Love of Money by dllthomas on Monday January 20, 2014 @01:04AM (#7087845)
You said 3 months. Bridging gaps in time is useful and worth a fee, even at amounts of time significantly shorter than 3 months. I made no claim about all HFT being this, I complained about the metric you were using.
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