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Re:A web-reading bot made millions on the options market by needhelpplz on Sunday April 26, 2015 @02:15AM (#9440741)
Well, if everybody started doing it, won't the returns fall to zero? Sort of like if arbitrage opportunities are present (in this case its a technological one), this would go away.

I bet since writing this article the opportunities has pretty much slipped. Now anyone living close to the exchanges will do this.

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Re:A web-reading bot made millions on the options market by toxicFork on Sunday April 26, 2015 @03:56AM (#9440939)
What if many people are not doing it because they think that many people are already doing it, and actually as a result of this, very few people are doing it?
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Re:A web-reading bot made millions on the options market by needhelpplz on Sunday April 26, 2015 @08:38PM (#9443866)
they would lose money and only to be replaced by others who think the same thing?
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