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Wouldn't the term "Statistical Arbitrage" be a more apt description of what you were doing?

If you are relying on a broker-supplied pricefeed over the internet you are far outside the real of what is traditionally understood as "High Frequency Trading".



It wasn't anything over the internet. I had a server rented at my broker who were situated close to the exchanges in Chicago and had direct lines. For sure I was not the fastest but only behind by a couple milliseconds perhaps.


Ok, that wasn't clear to me.

You talked about programming hotkeys (and then automating the hotkeys) so I assumed this was running on your desktop.


oh right.. well in the very beginning it was.


How much does that cost?




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