Efficiency in the &quot;efficient markets&quot; sense is not instability - it is by definition perfect incorporation of all information into the price.<p>Fast adjustments are not &quot;energy&quot; in any sense, and smaller but more rapid adjustments are in fact considered to be properties of an &quot;orderly market&quot; (to borrow SEC terminology). Your 2 minute sprint example has a problem with transaction costs, not rapid iteration.<p>Rather than analogies, can you just state directly how adding latency will stabilize things?