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Depends on my goals. If I'm buying or selling for investment, I just don't care about that jitter. Because my decision to buy or sell doesn't happen at that speed.

If I'm racing other people's orders on the sub-second level then I care. But what's the point of that? Why should people spend their lifes on it? Why should we as a society bear the cost of this activity? I'd rather see people do something with external benefits.



What is the point of adding X ms delay to your order? What does it fix? The "problem" with HFT is that participants can quickly pull out the limit orders, so your market order will be executed at the price that is worse than you expect. Jitter doesn't fix it. If anything, it will make it worse, i.e. your order will hit the market that is quite different from what you saw when you sent the order.


Not delay, jitter. It removes the possibility of timing orders to sub-second intervals. It's supposed to prevent people from spending resources on a zero-sum game.




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