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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms


From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:45:56 -0700

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...

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