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Pretty much everything at sub-second resolution is pointless. Some people think so, but the truth is you will simply shift the competition from “as fast as pos
by goatinaboat 7y ago
Pretty much everything at sub-second resolution is pointless.
Some people think so, but the truth is you will simply shift the competition from “as fast as possible” to “within as few picoseconds after exactly one second” or whatever the limit is.
- nathan_long 7y agoUnless you add random delays to each trade.
- goatinaboat 7y agoThat uncertainty will only increase the spread and retail investors - ordinary folks like you or I - will pay for it.
- gpderetta 7y agoAd long as you can model the latency statistically people will still try to play the game. It will be much riskier of course, and I'm not sure why that would be a better outcome.