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bawolff
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The fact that people make money off of HFT by definition means that the market conditions have changed in those time frames.
UltraSane
3 months ago
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No, it is proof that they are parasitically extracting money via non-productive strategies like latency arbitrage and order front-running.
jpfromlondon
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Liquidity provision is valuable though, and it's not really parasitic to exploit inefficiencies, it's not even that profitable a strategy today.
UltraSane
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It isn't nearly valuable enough to compensate for the wealth HFT extracts from the market.
jpfromlondon
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your information seems to be at least a decade out of date
bawolff
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Which is changing market conditions.
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