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Rules for electronic trading

Well presented arguments from Steven Spencer about electronic trading. To sum it up he offers three improvements which should be considered: 
  1. Participants (mostly HFT) should not be able to see other orders then their own. If so, the trades should be live at least for one second. 
  2. HFT should not have the opportunity to be closer to the source of exchanges and the data feed delivery should be the same in terms of timing for every participant
  3. Some stocks should be enabled to trade back in fractional quotes from decimals.
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