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This should be illegal long time ago -- think Captcha for buying/selling stocks.

The real issue here is that -- whoever was in charge of those stock exchanges hasn't properly addressed this issue as we all can see now its been growing slowly but constantly since 2007.



> think Captcha for buying/selling stocks.

I like that the side-effect would be a drastic improvement in OCR technology.


This would be awesome. (Time to bust out your DBNs)


Or just only permit trades at 100ms intervals or something. There are simpler solutions than Captchas.


I'm imagining this would mean an auction (something like the current opening/closing auctions) every 100ms ... I like it. It seems more scalable than the current system.




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