Dark Pools: The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street - Scott Patterson by Unknown, Scott Patterson
A news-breaking account of the global stock markets subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the bots- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans whove 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 jungle of fiber-optic cables. By then, the market that Levine had sought to fix had turned upside down, birthing secretive exchanges called dark pools and a new species of trading machines that could think, and that seemed, ominously, to be slipping the control of their human masters. Dark Pools is the fa
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Dark Pools: The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street - Scott Patterson
Unknown, Scott Patterson
Category: Business
Tags: Business, Education
A news-breaking account of the global stock markets subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the bots- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans whove 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 jungle of fiber-optic cables. By then, the market that Levine had sought to fix had turned upside down, birthing secretive exchanges called dark pools and a new species of trading machines that could think, and that seemed, ominously, to be slipping the control of their human masters. Dark Pools is the fa
