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Re:With 61 Seconds in a Minute, Markets Brace for Trouble by sirseal on Monday June 29, 2015 @02:08PM (#9799808)
HFT is a tool of oppression. Who can afford it? Who has the time, capital, and personnel to make and deploy HFT algos? And ultimately, who is really benefitting the most from this technological advance?
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Re:With 61 Seconds in a Minute, Markets Brace for Trouble by djfm on Monday June 29, 2015 @02:59PM (#9800154)
Could "High Frequency Trading As A Service" be a thing? Someone provides the infrastructure and a nice API to talk with the market and runs your algorithms on their hyperfast computers at the heart of the stock exchange for a fee.
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