• MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I doubt the market itself has crazy amounts of computer power, but the financial firms that run algorithms to trade in milliseconds to sell a million shares to make $100k on a small bump, there’s a lot of power there. It’s really all about speed.

    They ran brand new undersea fiber to connect London to New York so the programs the corporations there run can trade milliseconds faster.