[fleitz]

Yeah, so if you're not a fucking idiot, instead of taking out a front page newspaper ad announcing to the world that you want to buy ALL THE MILK.

You should instead send 4 or 5 trucks to each location and buy the available milk, the guy in the Ferrari cannot outrun you because you're already there, and your order filled before he even got there.

Now imagine that you have at your finger tips a giant constantly updating database to the nearest millisecond about how much milk there is at every grocery store, but you still decide to take out a front page ad and announce your plans in advance, instead of breaking up your order into multiple parts and sending each to its own store. If you did this, everyone would laugh at you like they are at IEX and Capital Group.

[hm8]

Like I said in the original comment, it is pointless to get bogged down in the analogy because it doesn't reflect the truth accurately. However, you guys are continuing down the path an down-voting a perfectly legit argument. The purpose of an analogy is not to maintain fidelity to the original scenario but to simplify it to convey the point of author (otherwise it ends up getting as complicated as the scenario). The analogy is only a coarse approximation of the actual scenario, a best-effort attempt to drive the point across. I'm disappointed with the unreasonable down-votes and the explanation provided.