While I am fully pro-HFT, and in fact work as a consultant for a few HFT shops, this is certainly illegal and anti-competitive. (Somewhat akin to using game en

While I am fully pro-HFT, and in fact work as a consultant for a few HFT shops, this is certainly illegal and anti-competitive. (Somewhat akin to using game engine bugs for artificial lag creation in MMOs on the opponent side).