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by vehementi 3660 days ago
What do you mean by smoke in this context?
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philippnagel 3660 days ago
Retail investors can't compete with HFT in terms of order execution speed.
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vehementi 3659 days ago
Sure, but do they need to? Let's accept that HFT vampires steal a bit of the value I wanted to get. But my value is not in trying to be a HFT, it is in (ostensibly) calling that GOOG will go up or something. How does HFT screw me over in that regard?
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mod 3659 days ago
That would only matter if they were executing on the same trigger, wouldn't it?
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