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Today’s financial markets operate at lightning speed, dominated by algorithms and high-frequency trading firms. Nowhere has the impact of this technological advantage been more visible than in India, the world’s largest options trading hub.
Fueled by mobile apps and so-called “finfluencers”, millions of everyday investors flooded the market, only to lose billions of dollars while global HFT firms raked in massive profits. Now, as Indian regulators scrutinize the trading of one of those firms, Jane Street, a critical question emerges: should ultra-fast automated trading be seen as an engine for efficient markets, or a game stacked against the average investor?
