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by fnordfnordfnord 4244 days ago
Humans make the decisions, but they make them in advance. Machines are programmed to parse the feeds and trade based on their content. This has almost nothing to do with retail investing. It has to do with big players paying for the privilege to front-run the rest of the market.
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KMag 4244 days ago
> front-run the rest of the market.

With apologies to Inigo Montoya, you keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running

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fnordfnordfnord 4244 days ago
> I do not think it means what you think it means.

I think it works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running#Other_uses_of_th...

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KMag 4244 days ago
Which of those other usages applies in this case?

The listed other usages consist of: * Trading against a party who is legally required to publish their intent to trade in a security in advance. * Detecting large orders in the market and trading against them. * A financial advisor producing its own report and trading on that information before disclosing it to its clients.

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