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If you love endless optimization and squeezing every last bit of performance out of software and hardware you’d love being an engineer in the high-frequency tra
by xwdv 6y ago
If you love endless optimization and squeezing every last bit of performance out of software and hardware you’d love being an engineer in the high-frequency trade industry. I wouldn’t be surprised if someday high-frequency traders even discovered a way to send information at faster than light speeds. Can you imagine the implications? So much profit.
- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoThat wouldn’t surprise you?
- chczdc 6y agoInfinite profit, in fact, since the information would be traveling backwards in time.
- bluGill 6y agoPlenty of science fiction FTL is based on some [made up] loop hole that you can travel faster than light while time itself goes forward for all observers at the normal rate. Since we are talking about science fiction here you cannot ignore the above loop holes. If we were talking about the real universe as we know it, then of course you are right.
- logicchains 6y agoIt's only infinite if it travels backwards in time faster than the other HFTs' information.
- chczdc 6y agoMy point was to have some light fun at the optimism of ppl who think that all that’s needed to do the impossible is enough profit motivation: “The first to break c gets infinite profit! Ready, set go!”
- xwdv 6y agoYou could lose a trade before you even place it.
- noitpmeder 6y agoThat's called installing Robinhood
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoSounds like insider trading with extra steps!