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by rando18423 3641 days ago
I think market makers used technology to do exactly what they've always done at increasingly higher speeds. History also shows you're wrong, for hundreds of years market makers have sought an edge by trying to get information faster and faster. Hell, it used to be carrier pigeons that gave them the edge. There's really not much new here...
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> for hundreds of years market makers have sought an edge by trying to get information faster and faster.

And then it spurred the telegraph, and then the telephone, and then... :)