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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
From: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:59:34 -0400
On Mar 23, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net> wrote:
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) millions of dollars.But it should be illegal to run a stock market that volatile. This can't end well.The average consumer gets a 15 minute artificial delay in trading, why not implement for all trades...
The average consumer shouldn't be day trading with shit market data thats delayed or worse with level 1 depth of the markets they're just asking to be taken by the heavy quant firms. HIgh frequency trading does provide a service to the financial markets as a whole despite what the media and government politicians will have you think. Transaction cost has plummeted over the years and do has the barrister to enter the markets.
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