India’s trading boom and the fairness debate over ultra-fast trading
Bloomberg reports that everyday investors in India lost billions of dollars while global high-frequency trading firms made large profits, prompting questions about who benefits from automated markets.
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Bloomberg describes India as the world’s largest trading hub, with mobile apps and financial influencers helping draw millions of everyday investors into the market. It reports that those investors lost billions of dollars while global high-frequency trading firms made large profits. Regulators are questioning whether ultra-fast automated trading makes markets more efficient or stacks the odds against average investors, Bloomberg says.
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