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05/01/13 6:12 AM

#507389 RE: CohibaMan #507388

High-Speed Traders Exploit Loophole

High-speed traders are using a hidden facet of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s computer system to trade on the direction of the futures market before other investors get the same information.

Using powerful computers, high-speed traders are trying to profit from their ability to detect when their own orders for certain commodities are executed a fraction of a second before the rest of the market sees that data.

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