>It's a non-solution to a problem that doesn't even exist. The real "problem" as I understand it is that some people get information sooner than others and can

>It's a non-solution to a problem that doesn't even exist. The real "problem" as I understand it is that some people get information sooner than others and can profit from it That's effectively describing the problem is a slightly reformulated way. HFT basically gives traders priority access to the market - they can receive outside information at the same time as you and just react to it quicker. Moreover, they have priority access to information about how others in the market are behaving. >I'm not sure if it's possible to fix that, but one idea would be to do trades in discrete increments of a few seconds or whatever. That simply changes the race from about being the quickest trader to being first in the queue during the increments.