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| ==== Summary ==== | ==== Summary ==== | ||
| + | Technology are applied everywhere in today's stock market including transactions, analysis, information, etc. The information about the stock market flows much faster than ever. Benefit from the technology improvement, the shortening of the period between a trade being initiated and complete, or the reduction of latency as it is known, is the ultimate aim of any stock exchange worth its salt. | ||
| ==== Definitions ==== | ==== Definitions ==== | ||
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| The question at the heart of the current debate about high-frequency trading is whether the automation of trading -- and in Tower's case, the ability to maximize profits by executing trades faster than anyone else -- really does make the world better. | The question at the heart of the current debate about high-frequency trading is whether the automation of trading -- and in Tower's case, the ability to maximize profits by executing trades faster than anyone else -- really does make the world better. | ||
| + | === Has Computer Trading Made the Stock Market a "Crapshoot"? === | ||
| + | [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-auerbach/has-computer-trading-made_b_819664.html]] | ||
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| + | Retail investors should also consider Jim McTague's advice about short-term stock trading: "It has become a shark tank and we are the anchovies." | ||
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| + | === Computer-trading worries grow as NYSE builds new datacenter === | ||
| + | [[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/nyse-builds-computer-trading-mothership-worries-abound.ars]] | ||
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| + | For every technique or technology that comes under the heading of HFT, you can dig up an example of how people did this same thing on a much smaller scale without computers. Therefore, the argument goes, the relatively recent (see below) use of computers to do two orders of magnitude more of these activities in a given timeslice is "nothing new," despite the fact that the computers are now doing this among themselves without human intervention. | ||
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| + | === A Major Problem with the Modern Day Stock Market === | ||
| + | [[http://prairieecothrifter.com/2011/08/major-problem-modern-day-stock-market.html]] | ||
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| + | Investors should have learned this from the stock market crash in 2008, that there is a major flow in the modern stock markets. That flaw lies in computer algorithms and trading. | ||
| ==== Discussion Questions ==== | ==== Discussion Questions ==== | ||
| - Is more technology good in this realm? What are the effects? | - Is more technology good in this realm? What are the effects? | ||
| - Does the potential for manipulation cause problems? If so, how can we fix so manipulation doesn’t occur? | - Does the potential for manipulation cause problems? If so, how can we fix so manipulation doesn’t occur? | ||
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