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Re:U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis by mmaldacker on Monday March 31, 2014 @07:24AM (#7500746)
This is called (spacial) arbitrage and this strategy has been around for a long time, well before HFT.
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Re:U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis by bostik on Monday March 31, 2014 @04:18PM (#7503845)
> this strategy has been around for a long time, well before HFT.

I have no doubt about that. Very few things are new.

But if you're deploying special hardware in an attempt to cheat the speed of light and gain an advantage of mere microseconds, the system is FUBAR (or recognition).

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