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▲ loeg 16 hours ago

No one wants four-trades-a-day settlement to save 0.00001% or whatever in trading fees.

▲ralph84 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No one? Mutual funds have managed to attract $33 trillion trading once a day. The demand for millisecond-level trading is almost entirely from a very small group of firms profiting from it.

▲loeg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And they are steadily losing new investment dollars to ETFs, which trade interday. I don't think interday trading is why ETFs are more attractive to all or most investors, but a 0.000001% (or whatever) cost advantage just falls below the noise floor. It isn't worth any other tradeoff.

▲amenhotep 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's true, we don't want it to do that, we want it to kill these parasitic entities. Much like one doesn't swat a mosquito because one will truly miss the amount of blood she's taking.