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No.

Your ping time will be > 20ms. factor in a bit of latency in the data feed and call it 30ms. Nyquist says you'll get aliasing unless you sample 2xfreq. So The highest frequency you can possibly trade is 60ms. Not at all high frequency.

And I really doubt you'll get a 20ms ping time. I get 100ms to my broker. Can you do mid-frequency trading? Absolutely. But you don't have the money or access to resources required for hifi trading.

Also, $10/trade is VERY high. I'm using interactive brokers, which is $2/side+some costs which are small enough I don't bother accounting for them.



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