[time-nuts] Trading stocks faster than light
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 25 10:04:00 UTC 2013
On 9/24/13 9:24 PM, Stewart Cobb wrote:
> <www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html>
>
> Financial markets in Chicago and New York reacted to news from Washington
> -- milliseconds faster than the news could have reached them.
>
> Includes at the end some discussion of news organizations that "aren't so
> good about synchronizing their master clock ..." "Historically, these news
> services have shown a time range of about 30 milliseconds ..." Sounds like
> they need time-nuts on staff.
>
Have you not heard of front-running? Or watched "The Sting"?
When billions of dollars are at stake, many seemingly unusual events can
take place. It could well be that they DO have a time-nut on staff.
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