• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The countermeasure to this was published, years ago, in a book “Who Gets What, & Why”, or something like that, on markets, & how they work.

    Millisecond-algorithmic-trading can be broken from all advantage simply by recording trades in 1-SECOND batches.

    Instead of seeing the weird event that happened a few years ago, where … 40% of the market’s value disappeared in minutes, & reappeared, as different algorithms 1st sold-off, then bought-in, to companies… ( essentially concentrating wealth quicker than any human could possibly do it ),

    it is the slope of the curve that the timing-algorithms are riding.

    By changing it from continuous-process to 1-second-batches, you simply break that millisecond-trading category from our markets.

    ( 1-second is an eon to the millisecond-traders.

    I’d say that it’d have to be rejigged, dynamically, in order to put humans & machines on more-equal footing.

    Possibly a 4-second cycle would balance fairness to human-traders & machines )

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