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Well.. What they do is often pejoratively called "front running". A carefully crated google can serve as witness : https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=medallion+front+running

I certainly meant it in that sense. I'm not accusing the Medallion of illegal front running.

I think people like Brad Katsuyama and fixing the "early information" problem are the answer to this kind of behavior. Katsuayama is working on a system to make the fight between high frequency traders and other investors more fair. Good write up is here : http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michae... ...

"Coil the fiber. Instead of running straight fiber between the two places, why not coil 38 miles of fiber and stick it in a compartment the size of a shoe box to simulate the effects of the distance. And that’s what they did."



You should read http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F... before you decide to believe anything in Flash Boys. Most of that book is ignorant at best or outright deceptive at worse.

Brad Katsuyama's dark pool is definitely deceptive.


Sounds like a little pushing and shoving in the big game to me.

Play on.




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