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I have always thought so. You can never buy at your order price, it's always a little more.

Of course they are! Remember what the specialists did to Joe Granville a couple of decades ago?

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged. High-frequency traders, along with the stock exchange operators and big Wall Street banks, are getting rich at the expense of "everybody who has an investment in the stock market.Here's how it works: Critics say some traders use high-frequency technology, HFT for short, to allow them to see a slower trade request coming through the system. The HFT firm then sells shares to the pension or mutual fund at a higher price. This all takes place in a matter of nanoseconds and may only result in a penny or so additional cost, but it adds up.High-frequency firms "co-locate" their computer servers in the same data center used by the exchange, giving them the ability to execute trades a fraction of a second faster than other investors. Simple example: Johnny Weir sell a share of stock in San Diego,CA it take 3 seconds for that sale to register on the NYSE. The HFT trader can do the same trade in a fraction of a second since their computer server are a few blocks away fron wall street. All transaction travelat the speed of light but the distance of the two trades makes one slower then the other by 2&3/4 of a second. This creates an advantage that the HTF trader takes advantage of. So, poor Johnny Weir will always be short changed on every trade by the laws of physics. It's a 100% safe trade for the HTF traders. No Risk. Read Flash Boys.

The US stock market IS and HAS BEEN the most important in the world. The US stock market IS and HAS BEEN rigged since day one. The difference now is technology--suggest u read Once in Golconda --a book about the 1920's and 30's and how the markets were manipulated. One of the biggest crooks was JFK's dad who was later appointed the FIRST chairman of the SEC. When FDR was asked why did u appoint Kennedy--his response--" takes a crook to catch a crook"

Take a look at Spread Networks in Jackson. They provide and have access to everyone's data.

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No. They don't. Don't just spit out information that you have no clue about.

Spread provides a fiber optic link between two sites. Period. If you think they have access to trading data, you're wrong. They connect two points over a 1" piece of glass.

There are also several companies that provide access to the data. Some of them use fiber, others use microwave.

11:57, how do you have access to a computer in federal prison?