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It already was a dangerous scam app. The data on trades went straight to front running traders, so they could feed their algorithms and profit off your plans.


Is that actually true? I thought "frontrunning" was one of the fundamental things that is forbidden by stock trading regulation. Does it not apply when done with those new-fangled computers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running


I mean, that's what you get for not paying for a service. It's a trade-off people knowingly took.




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