Yes, because that key word...discovering...implies that our rhetorical Kinko's has somehow gleaned advance knowledge that you're about to leave home to purchase some copies.
I don't think HFT in general is ruining things. I think the ability of HFT firms to quickly enter orders and quickly widthdraw those same orders millions of times a minute enables them to gain some insight into the trading market that the market was never designed for. And I believe that is a perversion of the original open-call trading that the stock market was built upon. All buyers should be able to see the ask at the exact same time.
