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It is also why high speed trading firms invest in microwave radio links the speed of light through air is enough faster enough than the speed of light through glass that they feel this gives them a trading edge.

Honestly, gaming the system this hard really worries me, a lot of our economic ability is tied up in these trading system(the stock market). and I can see something going wrong far faster than our ability to fix it.



Flash crash. It's really hard to put in fair minimum times on things. A basic delay isn't really any better.




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