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Re:HFT in my backyard – II by namecast on Friday September 26, 2014 @02:13PM (#8373965)
Chris: you need to identify yourself if you're going to push your viewpoint here. You're the only author of a controversial blog post that's pushing what I'll gently describe as an interesting theory - not a casual HN observer just bringing up some talking points. If I hadn't caught your CAP theorem quote ("solve the CAP theorem", wha?) and the Nanex reference, I would have missed this and not drilled down to your user details.

Next time, feel free to add a </disclaimer> of some sort.

I'm not an outsider unless you've got one intense No True Scotsmen definition of the word, and I'll leave it at that. Let's just agree to disagree, and I'll say that you are certainly entitled to your opinion. Thank God, it's a free country and a free market :) Good luck.

Re:HFT in my backyard – II by nanexllc on Saturday September 27, 2014 @08:29PM (#8378569)
Really, are you that naive to how the markets work? Intenalizers - Citadel for example, give retail traders prices based off the SIP and buy/sell on direct. Whenever there's a pricing difference, it's instant risk-less profits. You can induce that pricing difference by quote stuffing.
Re:HFT in my backyard – II by minimax on Friday September 26, 2014 @04:33PM (#8374707)
The problem with every allegation of quote stuffing I have ever seen is that it always looks like this:

1) Blast quotes

2) ???

3) Profit

Same problem in this thread. It would be a much more convincing argument if you could spell out the actual trade.