it's not 100% real, I bought a call last week at a deep discount to the ASK. Do you remember the stock market a few decades ago? Stocks once had large bid/ask

it's not 100% real, I bought a call last week at a deep discount to the ASK. Do you remember the stock market a few decades ago? Stocks once had large bid/ask spreads. Now the hft/dark pools eat it all, with 99% profit on trades. High speed, lasers and fiber optics front-running..