It&#x27;s easily mitigated by submitting your order 16 nanoseconds sooner.<p>Imagine UPS complained to the Feds that FedEx had an unfair advantage because they bought faster planes...<p>And actually it isn&#x27;t very easy because nothing travels faster than light so you need some ridiculous method to determine with nanosecond accuracy the time that each order was &#x27;created&#x27; at, which will invariably lead to people &#x27;creating&#x27; orders and then not sending them.<p>Also the entire reason why LMAX is such a great method is because it IS serialized and IS FIFO doing those two things allows 6 million tps.<p>It&#x27;s like seeing a car on the lot announcing I will pay $18,000 for this car and then  wondering why the dealer won&#x27;t sell for less than $18,000.<p>There&#x27;s no law that says you have to trade on exchanges with HFT, you can trade on exchanges that don&#x27;t allow HFT, have fun trying to find a counterparty though. Markets aren&#x27;t fair they are efficient.<p>With enough money you can destroy practically any company. Don&#x27;t like the cut of someone&#x27;s jib? Buy any debt linked to stock price, short the fuck out of it then call it, leak a story about the outstanding debt and then profit on your short, buy more debt and force bankruptcy as the senior lender.