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Tom Scott: Things You Might Not Know: Season 2019

2019x04 Slowing Down A Stock Exchange With 38 Miles Of Cable

  • 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 2m
  • United States
  • Special Interest
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. Thanks to Ronan and all the team at IEX - you can find out more about them here: https://iextrading.com/ or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IEX I fact-checke
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