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aroon on Nov 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: When The Speed Of Light Is Too Slow: Trading at th...

How does a machine taking advantage of small arbitrage opportunities that last fractions of a second represent an "investors assessment of economic conditions"?

gaius on Nov 15, 2010 [–]

Because they have implemented their assessment-making process in code.

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