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  "id": 1041,
  "title": "Identical Events",
  "url": "/competitions/AlgorithmicTradingChallenge/discussion/1041",
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  "post_date": "2011-11-13T12:32:15.130Z",
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  "content": "<p>what does it mean when everything in t1,t2,t3 etc are identical, including the time stamp (eg row id 5666)?</p>\r\n<p>Are these 50 different events that just all happened at the same time?&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "6508",
      "postDate": "11/13/2011 12:32:15",
      "content": "<p>what does it mean when everything in t1,t2,t3 etc are identical, including the time stamp (eg row id 5666)?</p>\r\n<p>Are these 50 different events that just all happened at the same time?&nbsp;</p>",
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      "postDate": "11/16/2011 04:16:13",
      "content": "<p>Following up on the final point you make.&nbsp; You have provided the volume of the trade identified with the shock, but you have decided not to provide the volume data for the prior trades.&nbsp; It seems to me that these data would be as important as the bid/ask\r\n prices.&nbsp; Is there a reason for the omission?</p>",
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      "id": "6565",
      "postDate": "11/16/2011 04:58:57",
      "content": "<p>Including the trade volume at the expense of diversity of stocks would have allowed for a greater likelihood of a useful result. You've got 2 channels of information, price and volume, and my hunch is that by excluding one of these you have accidentally\r\n hobbled the outcome. I mean no offense by that - I really want to get you a useful solution and its difficult when a very valuable component of the data is missing :) Of course that's just my opinion.</p>",
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      "author_name": "stellar",
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      "post_date": "11/16/2011 04:16:13",
      "content": "<p>Following up on the final point you make.&nbsp; You have provided the volume of the trade identified with the shock, but you have decided not to provide the volume data for the prior trades.&nbsp; It seems to me that these data would be as important as the bid/ask\r\n prices.&nbsp; Is there a reason for the omission?</p>",
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      "author_name": "stellar",
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      "post_date": "11/16/2011 04:58:57",
      "content": "<p>Including the trade volume at the expense of diversity of stocks would have allowed for a greater likelihood of a useful result. You've got 2 channels of information, price and volume, and my hunch is that by excluding one of these you have accidentally\r\n hobbled the outcome. I mean no offense by that - I really want to get you a useful solution and its difficult when a very valuable component of the data is missing :) Of course that's just my opinion.</p>",
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