Tom Scott

How to slow down a stock exchange (2019x5)

Uitzenddatum: Feb 04, 2019

High-frequency traders have a few tactics on stock exchanges: but simply put, they gather price information faster than anyone else, sometimes even faster than the markets themselves, and use that to make a tiny profit many, many, many times. There are all sorts of solutions: but it turns out there's a simpler one that involves physics.