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Board Trading Discussion
Re: High Frequency Trading
by
Lorence.xD
on 12/03/2021, 05:02:30 UTC
Will it be used on the cryptocurrency market?

Surely, but the resources needed are not given to everyone. Mainly banks, hedge funds, etc are using it. In the US, they even use what we use to call the "dark fiber" to get a super-high-speed internet connection. Oh, I should mention, the infrastructures for this fiber are paid with citizens' taxes. It's like if, during a war, you pay the tanks for your enemies.

It also needs very developed algorithms and I'm not exaggerating telling you some worth more than a million-dollar
When these entities will enter the market, it is more than likely that they will use the same methods in their race for profits.

Will it face any problem?

I don't see why. If this is not a problem in traditional finance there is no reason it should be any different in the crypto market.
Except for the problem that we could ask ourselves some ethical questions. Namely that as in finance it disadvantages people who do not have the resources I was talking about previously. We will not be on an equal level.

But since people don't seem to care, I don't see why they would start when HTF will be used with the crypto market.
Perhaps it's already in use without we notice it.
Some trading firms are even underground so they are closer to the fiber optics running underground but right now I think that in cryptocurrency market, it can be used because trading is slowly switching to microwaves satellite which is a little faster than fiber optics. The one problem mentioned in the video was that a bot to counter the algorithm of HFT can be used to make an artificial crash which made the HFTs after that attack more resilient but not attack proof. If a cryptofirm was to introduce this, I think that we should go and invest in it.