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Microwave vies with fiber for highfrequency trading stock traders turning to legacy microwave technologies for faster communications. The software allowed him to see every stock and derivative traded on all us. Software would then generate a buy or sell order depending on the nature of the event being looked for. These highfrequency traders rely on getting information a fraction of a. Highfrequency trading uses computer algorithms to automate trading and replace the role that humans once had in the market. This is because microwaves travelling in air suffer a less than 1% speed reduction compared to light travelling in a. Laser beams and microwave dishes are the latest weapons in an arms race to shave milliseconds off dealing times in the shadowy world of.
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