Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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The History of High-Frequency Trading
High-frequency trading is about 50% of the US financial markets. Some high-frequency traders are trading at nanoseconds, billions to the second scale. The beat kept by one cesium atom in the universe will be identical to every other cesium atoms in the universe. Modern capitalism is based on clocks that can not only time to millions of a second but are synchronized across the globe.
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