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Re:For the Love of Money by judk on Sunday January 19, 2014 @09:57PM (#7087268)
Tick size is exactly the problem! Tick size means that sales go to the people with the fastest computers, not people offering the best prices.
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Re:For the Love of Money by w_t_payne on Friday January 24, 2014 @09:45AM (#7115067)
I agree ... although chasing billionths-of-a-cent margins seems pretty pointless too. It is a good thing that there are lots of other options: Stochastic matching? Auction over order-book?
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