[FoRK] Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire

[Gregory Alan Bolcer]

There's a lot of work being done using GPGPU to gain a time competitive 
edge on other traders, down to the nanosecond.

It's easy to regulate, the trading boards as collective legal entities 
can set limits if they think it's bad for the traded companies.

I suspect it's not.  Either that or the traders making all the money 
have influenced the system enough such that it's not.  Everything's 
hedged nowadays anyways and I expect hedge funds to be the next bubble 
(if it hasn't burst already).

Greg

On 2/16/2012 7:23 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/high-speed-trading/
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> Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire
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> By Brandon Keim February 16, 2012 | 6:30 am | Categories: Tech
>
> Photo: © Copyright 2006, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
>

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