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Heh. Yeah I have no idea why everybody who isn't doing HFT hasn't decided to stop letting these guys rip them off and moved to

    investor sex change
er, sorry, put the spaces in the wrong place there, I meant:

    investors exchange
They basically encoded a bunch of HFT-thwarting principles into their clearing policies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investors_Exchange#Operating_p...

It's a great idea. But every time I see that name I can't keep my brain from moving the spaces around. I mean seriously what were they thinking with that name.



Yeah, why? Maybe because HFT actually do provide a service valuable to retail.


Or because retail have no choice but to lose a few tenths of a percent of every trade to HFT leeches..




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