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		KirillPanov on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band? 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.

scatters on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

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

londons_explore on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

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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