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More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading

Posted by timothy on from the financial-chicken dept.

bfwebster writes "From The Big Picture (a great finance/econ blog) comes a link to this New York Times article on some of the risks and problems of high-frequency trading on financial markets and a couple of 'gadflies' who are pushing hard to get some changes and reforms in how Wall Street handles HFT. Key question: when is fast trading too fast?"

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  1. Re:Trading's Too Fast When It Ceases to Mean Anyth by r1348 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Goldman&Sachs would go belly up in a week. So yeah, no downsides.