$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

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Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock
>> market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose)
>> millions of dollars.
> 
> But it should be illegal to run a stock market that volatile.  This can't end well.

The average consumer gets a 15 minute artificial delay in trading, why 
not implement for all trades...

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