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>Would you prefer that prices update only once a day?

Obviously you are being hyperbolic, but some people have proposed literally laying excess cable to slow down the speed of automatic trades, which can be highly volatile. That's not damaging market makers at all. It's smoothing out the supply and demand to prevent micro-crashes and other arbitrage.




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