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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Moving capital faster than the speed of light pays off:

Relativistic Trading
The speed of light isn’t fast enough for some market transactions.

http://www.insidescience.org/policy/relativistic-trading

Relativistic statistical arbitrage

Recent advances in high-frequency financial trading have made light propagation delays between geographically separated exchanges relevant. Here we show that there exist optimal locations from which to coordinate the statistical arbitrage of pairs of spacelike separated securities, and calculate a representative map of such locations on Earth. Furthermore, trading local securities along chains of such intermediate locations results in a novel econophysical effect, in which the relativistic propagation of tradable information is effectively slowed or stopped by arbitrage.

http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v82/i5/e056104


7 posted on 12/18/2010 12:37:59 PM PST by epithermal
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To: epithermal

So they are trying to make money fly...

=8-p


8 posted on 12/18/2010 1:15:24 PM PST by =8 mrrabbit 8=
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