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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Re:Luddite by clarkkent09 · 2012-08-07 14:01 · Score: 0, Troll

How about a death penalty for anyone who holds a stock for less than 1 minute? That will do it too, congratulations you are a genius. Now you just have to explain who the fuck are you to decide what is the minimum amount of time that I have to hold my property before I am allowed to sell it?

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