It shifts the problem so that every bot is waiting for the end of each second to gather as much information as possible from external sources before placing its orders. So when a human trader places a market order, they will have a disadvantage equal to the volatility over 1 second. By contrast, in a real-time market, the HFT bots make your market orders very close to the current price everywhere else.<p>It&#x27;s not clear to me that batching actually solves all our problems. It might be better, but it doesn&#x27;t seem 100% clear cut.