[151524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Fri Mar 23 14:47:30 2012
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:45:56 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <30864.1332510464@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock
>> market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose)
>> millions of dollars.
>
> But it should be illegal to run a stock market that volatile. This can't end well.
The average consumer gets a 15 minute artificial delay in trading, why
not implement for all trades...
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