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>Sure. But it's coming out of the pockets of traders who in the aggregate would make even more. i.e. traders like pension funds, who will end up passing the co
by crdoconnor 13y ago
>Sure. But it's coming out of the pockets of traders who in the aggregate would make even more.
i.e. traders like pension funds, who will end up passing the costs on to pensioners.
- tptacek 13y agoHow actively to pension funds trade? The HFT squeeze harms people who jump in and out of positions quickly. Don't pension funds buy and hold, and thus benefit from reduced transaction costs? One of the hardest things to do in the market --- shopping huge blocks --- is simultaneously something HFT is good at and something that inflicts costs on institutional buy-and-hold investors.