Dark Pools The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U. S. Stock Market

Name: Dark Pools The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U. S. Stock Market
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ISBN: 9780307887184

ISBN-10: 0307887189

ISBN-13: 9780307887184

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Authors: Scott Patterson

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A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles,Dark Poolsportrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them.In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who dreamed of wresting control of the market from the big exchanges that, again and again, gave the giant institutions an advantage over the little guy. Levine created a computerized trading hub named Island where small traders swapped stocks, and over time his invention morphed into a global electronic stock market that sent trillions in capital through a vast…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638

Scott Patterson worked for several years as a financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York. His previous book The Quants (Random House Business, 2009) was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.



Prologue: Light Pool



Machine V. Machine



Trading Machines



The Size Game



Algo Wars



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Birth of the Machine



Bandits



The Watcher



Monster Key



The Island



The Green Machine



Archipelago



Everyone Cares



Palace Coup



Bad Pennies



Dumb Money



Trade Bots



Crazy Numbers



"I Do Not Want to be a Famous Person"



Triumph of the Machine



The Beast



The Platform



Panic Ticks



Very Dangerous



Future of the Machine



A Rigged Game



The Big Data



Advanced Chess



Star


Postscript: The Year of the Glitch


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index