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Settlement on share trades is not real time, and no one cares from a liquidity perspective. Settlement risk is a different question.

Who is convinced that these traders actually need to exist?

The share market's function in the broader world is to link long term investors with those who need long term capital for investment in the productive economy. Trading beyond monthly seems superfluous to me.



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