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I specifically the high-speed trading. I definitely agree that actual investment and trading has some benefit.

Nobody was helped by the 200 nanosecond thing that the machines did when the marked opened (except the owners of said machines, of course)




What if collectively those ULL and HFT orders help stabilise the market. Then I would say, yes, "we, the world" are being helped.


Plenty you people were, you just don't notice it.




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