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You can't access this high speed trading. This is the toy of billionaires that can afford microwave link between New York and Chicago and have dedicated teams of FPGA developers to write high speed network stacks with trading logic embedded in them.

This is what the parent comment was talking about.



I don't need to be able to access high speed trading to access the benefits!


I have friends who work for such firm, both are FPGA designers, the company has a microwave link because speed of light in fiber is only 2/3c. Hundreds of people are working there for the sole benefit of the private owners.

It's possible I was confused.. I thought you were complaining about the inequality between high speed traders and mere humans clicking on web pages..


HFT trade with retail. Your comment doesn’t make much sense.


In case anyone else got very confused, FPGA has nothing to do with female golf.




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