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by metachris 5559 days ago
Furthermore HFT is really interesting for a lot of folks because of

(1) high technical sophistication, really hard to do (for each of the servers, network, algorithms, historical data, machine learning, etc)

(2) done behind closed doors (always interesting to get a peek)

(3) technically 'exploits' the financial system in a way that provides certain companies with immense profits