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WJWyesterday at 3:28 PM1 replyview on HN

From the wiki about IEX: "It was founded in 2012 in order to mitigate the effects of high-frequency trading." I can see how they don't want to track internal latency as part of that, or at least not share those numbers with outsiders. That just encourages high frequency traders again.


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pants2yesterday at 4:26 PM

One would hope for a more technical solution to HFT than willful ignorance lol. For example, they could batch up orders every second and randomize them.

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