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You are not in a position to talk about people on high horses after posting that. There is quite a lot of research from the behavioral economics field (tl;dr: most people are somewhat irrational) that undercuts the EMH.

Also, there's a lot of straw man argumentation in your post. Consumers can and do make sacrifices of utility in line with their values, even if such behavior is a standard deviation or two outside the norm. And while your argument for market making is sound, do you really need to make that trade within milliseconds, or would you be equally happy as long as it closed within a couple of minutes? You seem oblivious to the possibility that your stock might be falling due to a liquidity event caused by a race condition, for example, although in cases such as the 'flash crash' such trades are usually unwound afterwards, presumably at considerable expense.

parent anigbrowl 9 years ago

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