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by thatthatis 4457 days ago
It saddens me that people lump Market Making and HFT together. Over the past 100 years, the bid-ask spread has fairly steadily decreased due to technology and this fact in isolation is uniformly a good thing for retail investors.

http://www.cxoadvisory.com/5737/big-ideas/trading-frictions-...

Other HFT methods are less clearly on net socially good.