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Re: Hi speed trading - hi speed monitoring


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:36:35 -0500

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:36 EST, Rodrick Brown said:
Trades today in the equity markets must be within the national best bid, best
offer price range or companies can be fined by the SEC which is why latency
an jitter can be problematic in financial networks.

Am I the only one who thinks that if network jitter can make you fall outside
the acceptable price window, maybe, just maybe,  the market is just too damned
volatile for its own good?

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