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Dialogue with the Alter Ego on co-located servers for high-frequency trading

Here’s how firms capitalize on one aspect of high-frequency trading known as co-location: after paying a fee to an exchange, firms are allowed to co-locate, i.e., rent server space within or near the NYSE or another exchange’s computer servers to get access to trading statistics faster

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