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by kasey_junk 4430 days ago
Knight (and most big HFT firms) trade for others or sell their execution platforms. They also have proprietary trading arms, of which their market making strategies were assumedly a part.

The way they were able to raise the funds they needed was to go to existing stakeholders for the money. This lead directly to their merger with Getco a bother huge HFT firm.