High frequency trading quote stuffing vs. Whac-a-mole virus. Guess which one is a crime?

High-frequency trading logic bomb that erases billions of market cap? Not a crime.

the SEC still fails to acknowledge that it is precisely the HFT market participants that persist in destabilizing stock prices

Introduce a virus that shuts down whac-a-mole arcade games? Huge crime! Via Slashdot:

Orlando Man Sabotaged “Whac-A-Mole” Games

HFT are rich-people crimes, Whac-a-Mole virus is poor folk crime. Rich people crimes are not criminal.

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