Transforming trading strategies into electrons

What’s truly amazing about a new video on high frequency trading is how a convergence of IT innovations has allowed us to trade nearly at the speed of light. But what is the importance of speed? Is speed the ultimate one-upmanship or just one aspect of something far more profound? As the video points out, sometimes if you move faster, you get more. This is where technology can help us improve upon the original model; even the miracle of human eyesight has its limits thus the need for infrared cameras.