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Originally Posted by matty088
High frequency is all about manipulation. Many strategies are predatory in nature. Either beating bigger orders to the market due to faster speed or sniffing out large benchmark strategies and picking them off. Some strategies are just there for the rebate of being a liquidity provider or bidder.
That industry day is coming. In time there will be much tighter regulations than you are dealing with now.
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That's incorrect. The vast majority of high frequency trading is about shifting liquidity in time or venue or symbol or product category. And that's a service people are very willing to pay for. It will not disappear until the day the demand for that goes away for some reason.