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title: Slowing Down A Stock Exchange With 38 Miles Of Cable — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/slowing-down-a-stock-exchange-with-38-miles-of-cable/
date: 2019-02-05
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# Slowing Down A Stock Exchange With 38 Miles Of Cable

High-frequency traders have a few tactics on stock exchanges: but simply put, they gather price information faster than anyone else, sometimes even faster than the markets themselves, and use that to make a tiny profit many, many, many times. There are all sorts of solutions: but it turns out there’s a simpler one that involves physics.
