I can already see some CTO at a high frequency trading data center putting together a proposal to use this information to reduce latency in trade orders from New Jersey to the exchange.
Not sure they can do a little relativity backglip and get orders in before the information they're based on exists but they might get closer to zero than the guy with the shorter fiber optic cables down the road...
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I can already see some CTO at a high frequency trading data center putting together a proposal to use this information to reduce latency in trade orders from New Jersey to the exchange. Not sure they can do a little relativity backglip and get orders in before the information they're based on exists but they might get closer to zero than the guy with the shorter fiber optic cables down the road...