The result is nothing short of a hugely profitable–but controversial–new market-making model, one that the Net made possible and Knight seized first in 1995. Instead of making money the old-fashioned way–capturing the slim-profit "spread" between buy and sell orders–Knight began using automated software to fill Net traders' orders instantly and accurately, and deployed its own battalion of traders to act on that information, reaping much bigger rewards.
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