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Re:Studies find fast traders get data from SEC seconds early by crdoconnor on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:21AM (#8527281)
No published prices + a seemingly HIGHLY profitable portion of a government service provided by a private company = something pretty shady.

Even the contracts to run private prisons don't give this much opportunity to gouge.

Were this service run on an at-cost basis would maybe cost $80 or so per month. $200 at most.

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Re:Studies find fast traders get data from SEC seconds early by tptacek on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @01:41PM (#8528631)
"HIGHLY profitable"? Even at the highest price quoted on this thread, this looks like a rounding error --- in the sense that if you were a startup providing this information at these prices to its total addressable market, you'd have a hard time even getting funded.

The number of firms that can profit from trading off realtime access to fundamentals is not large. It's a market where viable real products need to have customer lifetime values in the many millions.

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