This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 7, 2012 @10:49AM from the skynet-begins-in-our-stock-markets dept.

pigrabbitbear writes "Given the the endless mind-whirling acronyms, derivatives and structures of the financial markets, we're rarely served with a visualization that so elegantly illustrates the arrival of Wall Street's latest innovation. This is what High Frequency Trading — the official monicker of Wall Street's robot army — looks like, when specially programmed computers make massive bets at lightning speed. Created by Nanex, the GIF charts the rise of HFT trading volumes across all U.S. stock exchanges between 2007 and 2012. The initial murmur, the brewing storm, the final detonation: Not just unsettling, it's terrifying."

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Luddite by SuperKendall · 2012-08-07 10:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's only terrifying if you are some kind of luddite.
Everything is getting faster, with greater degree of computer involvement. Deal with it mentally or sell everything you own and go live in a cabin in the woods somewhere.

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