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by tptacek 3799 days ago
And if you put in a market order at $100 at Exchange A and the HFT beats the order to the best-priced Exchange B, buys it all up, and the instrument declines in price to $99.98, they lose money.

A lot of HFT argumentation only makes sense when you assume prices only go up.