http://insidehpc.com/2012/09/27/for-high-frequency-trading-speed-limits-are-not-the-answer/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2012/09/27/for-high-frequency-trading-speed-limits-are-not-the-answer/#comment-379114 Martin Hiegl Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:16:50 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=31836#comment-379114 "We'll not blow up the market, if you give us "cost-benefits"." That's what I call first-class blackmail. The general prohibition of automated trading would solve that much better - if each trade has to be requested by a person, even computated trades have this lag of a person clicking a button. This lag makes it senseless and so we are back at real trading. [Disclaimer: Personal Opinion] “We’ll not blow up the market, if you give us “cost-benefits”.” That’s what I call first-class blackmail.
The general prohibition of automated trading would solve that much better – if each trade has to be requested by a person, even computated trades have this lag of a person clicking a button. This lag makes it senseless and so we are back at real trading.
[Disclaimer: Personal Opinion]

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