Hi speed trading - hi speed monitoring

Fri Feb 17 18:46:56 UTC 2012

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:36 EST, Rodrick Brown said:
> > Trades today in the equity markets must be within the national best
> > bid, best
> > offer price range or companies can be fined by the SEC which is why
> > latency
> > an jitter can be problematic in financial networks.
> 
> Am I the only one who thinks that if network jitter can make you fall
> outside
> the acceptable price window, maybe, just maybe, the market is just too
> damned
> volatile for its own good?

You are not the only one.

Cheers,
-- jr 'hold any purchased stock for a minimum of 7 days' a
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