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Thanks.
You are seeing this from a perspective of a “financial innovator” ( I call it fraud ). See this from the perspective of an individual investor or from an investor who pools up “retire” funds ( a person’s life savings ) in this game and why exactly this is designed to loose.
I am looking @ the algos in particular and not “speed”. Let’s say some one wants to buy 100,000 shares of Intel with a limit price of 19.90$ a share. Buyer will accept any price upto 19.90$ a share. Assume current market price as 19.50$ or 40 cents lower.
The computers determine through their algos for the desire to buy up Intel shares. They come up sellers to sell first @ say 19.60$. If this gets eaten up, then they sell the next bunch say this is @ 19.70$ and so on, until the computers decide to sell @ 20$ a share. At this point the cancel order is issued and algos determine the price to sell is at 19.89$
Problem ( Frauds ):
1) There is no real legitimate seller for any of these prices.
2) Blatant market manipulation by accessing hidden information such as the limit price of the buy order
3) Buyer in above example has got screwed by 39 cents a share
4) If the move goes downside, people invested in 401k or other pension funds are literally screwed.
5) If people loose life savings, be prepared for social unrest, starting with arresting of “financial innovators”.