Odd Lots: How Trading Nearly Reaches the Speed of Light (Podcast)
Why it matters
The article discusses the intense competition among professional traders to execute trades at the fastest speed possible, with some firms aiming to minimize the distance between their systems and the exchange's computers to gain a millisecond advantage.
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- Provider tag
- groq-llama-3.1-8b-instant
- Analysis version
- groq-llama-3.1-8b-instant
- Article id
- 51882
Original source
The average person can enter a stock trade on their computer, hit refresh, and the trade is done. As fast as that seems, there are professional traders moving even faster, executing thousands of trades per second. Over the years, the need for speed got so intense that competing firms would aim to get their own systems closer and closer to the exchange’s computers, so as to minimize the length of the wires and get their trades in even faster. How did this happen? And how does this change the natu
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Original article published by Bloomberg on March 2, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.