Latency arbitrage: a tax credit for low latency traders

Posted by on Jun 4, 2010

Latency arbitrage is in the news again today, as the Wall Street Journal published a story titled Fast Traders’ New Edge. This “edge” is not exactly a “new” trading technique, or even a new story. It has been well chronicled over the last year in the press. In fact, the Journal published an article more than a year ago on precisely the same topic. But it is a popular topic, the...
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Listen all y'all it's an arbitrage…

Posted by on Mar 11, 2009

Arbitrage is back, that is, if it ever really went away. Rob Curran recently wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat blog on how the 10-15 millisecond gap between the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) and the pricing algorithms in most dark pools of liquidity is making money for technologically advanced traders using latency arbitrage. Basically if you can calculate the NBBO...
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