Trading at the Speed of Light : : How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets / / Donald MacKenzie.

A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today’s financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use al...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 28 b/w illus. 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 To the Towers
  • 3 “We’ll show you our book. Why won’t they?”
  • 4 Dealers, Clients, and the Politics of Market Structure
  • 5 “Not only would I lose my job, I might lose my legs too!”
  • 6 How HFT Algorithms Interact, and How Exchanges Seek to Influence It
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Appendix: A Note on the Literature on HFT
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index