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		jellicle on April 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 >The HFT appears to have prevoyance vis-à-vis slower market makers And also because they have paid to get the information 0.5 second sooner, so that they could trade on their insider information.

cynicalkane on April 26, 2012 [–]

You're confusing flash orders on ETNs with paying exchanges for flash orders. Only the DirectEdge exchange has flash orders. That's a pretty minor thing.

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