From 2006 to 2012, the Nikkei futures were heavily traded among traders.

That’s because the Nikkei is traded across multiple exchanges like SGX, OSE, and CME—and this offers arbitrage opportunities.

Let me explain how this works…

1. Buy 1 Nikkei contract for $100 on SGX

2. Quickly sell it on CME for $101

3. Earn a risk-free profit of $1.

It was like having a money printer, but legal!

Now, $1 might sound like pocket change. But when you're doing this with hundreds of contracts, multiple times a day... You do the math.

That's more money than most people make in a year, just from being really good at clicking buttons fast.

So, many traders exploited this inefficiency and made good money for several years.

Then, something happened…

Robots entered the market.

And I don't mean the cute Wall-E kind. I mean the "I'll execute 1,000 trades while you're still trying to remember your password" kind.

The machines were so fast, they could spot and exploit price differences before any human traders could.

And just like that, the golden goose was cooked. The party was over. The free lunch got eaten by robots.

So here’s the lesson…

As a retail trader, trying to compete on speed is like challenging Usain Bolt to a race while wearing flip-flops.

That’s why my trading strategies are not built around speed but on exploiting emotions.

Humans will always have emotions (like fear and greed), and this makes the strategies robust and likely to continue working.

If you want to learn more, then grab a copy of my Book, Trading Systems That Work.

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Cheers,

Rayner “not-a-robot” Teo

P.S. The only thing I can do faster than robots is disappoint my wife with my cooking.