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TIL that in 2013, someone in Chicago placed a $600 million trade 2 milliseconds after the Fed publicly announced they wouldn’t slow bond purchases. The markets skyrocketed and the trader made lots of money. There was one problem though. It would have taken 7 milliseconds for light to get to Chicago.

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