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by gammateam 2741 days ago
User data on what stocks they buy and sell

Except between the time the user clicks buy and when it the buy actually happens. Basically hedge funds are able to receive and parse this data, and change their orders to an advantage before the users order hits the actual exchange

Its analogous to a MITM attack

Despite my wording its not necessarily bad, but I think users should have a better understanding of it.

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(any insight on why this is downvoted -4 at time of writing?)