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Yes, but a trade has to go both ways. I can receive the information early, then send a trade to act on that information. But if my connection varies enough on s
by jjeaff 5y ago
Yes, but a trade has to go both ways. I can receive the information early, then send a trade to act on that information. But if my connection varies enough on sending to make me sometimes faster, but sometimes slower than the competition, I don't see how you could come out ahead.
- ncmncm 5y agoYou do local trades according to your better information, before others who don't have it yet. Those take only microseconds.
- jjeaff 5y agoI see, that makes sense. I hadn't considered the information coming from a different source than where the trades happen. I was in the mode of thinking about trade front-running where you are trying to beat orders in progress.