### Comment:
I like to think of it as an emotionless engine to keep the game running. Without it, options prices would be a bit crazier. They have made it entirely predictable. 
  
 Doesn't mean I agree, just my rationalization for their continued existence.

### REPLY:
Flash boys is a good book. I was just commenting because that person didn't actually seem to know what HFT was

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