Sat, 07 Aug 2010

Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders

Fascinating stuff - be sure to read the comments, they're almost better than the article itself. I'm pretty convinced that all high frequency trading is a scam, but I can't puzzle out what these bots are up to...

Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation's stock exchanges.

(link) [The Atlantic]

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