"High-frequency traders pay for an advanced look at [market] information so they are in an unfair position. They know the prices before the ordinary investors they are trading against.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-32246655.amp

Taking a larger snapshot, the boom and bust bubble market is suspect. Foreknowledge as in insider trading paves corruption, and the tech sector and others before it are deliberately pumped and dumped to cover debt and provide finance. In short, deregulatory markets are rigged like a casino. The house being owned by the ultra rich oligarchs and plutocrats, is there to preserve and protect their totalitarian world order and its programme of ecocide! #RiggedMarkets #EcocideEmpire #CasinoCapital #HFT

'The market is rigged' - Michael Lewis - BBC News

Michael Lewis, the author of Flash Boys and Liar's Poker, says high speed electronic traders are still a threat (but there is a solution).

BBC News