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by astroguy 5679 days ago
Thank you for the link. From your experience did you notice any immediate correlation between the sectors or any time delay? If there is some time delay, it might be a key feature to notice for short term trading, sounds right?
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Um, what you're referring to is a form of high-frequency trading. For that you'll need (1) a direct connection to the exchange, and possibly even co-location; (2) historical tick data for backtesting; and (3) the hardware and software capable of executing the logic. The kinds of time-sensitive arbitrage opportunities you're hinting at take a TON of skill and start-up capital to perform.

Basically, if you haven't done this kind of stuff before, this not the type of strategy you should start with.