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A couple things: 1. Signals travel faster through the air and vacuum of space than they do fiber optic cables or electrical cables. 2. If there is an HFT trade
by mech1234 7y ago
A couple things:
1. Signals travel faster through the air and vacuum of space than they do fiber optic cables or electrical cables.
2. If there is an HFT trader based in the U.S. looking to trade based on events happening in Spain or Japan, they still want to get data across continents in the fastest way possible.
EDIT: Apparently other posters traded on the information arbitrage opportunity of replying to your post several seconds faster than I did. gg.
- TylerE 7y agoTraveling twice as fast three times as far isn't a win.
- Dylan16807 7y agoPeople already gave pretty exact distances in other posts.