High-frequency trading (HFT) has an evil cousin: dark pools.
It’s earnings season. In fact it’s prime time for companies’ first-quarter earnings.
For company players the game is about trying to beat analysts’ estimates, to get your company’s stock to pop so you look better than your reflection.
But, the game is rigged.
It was waiting for me when I got home Saturday night. I finished it by Sunday morning. Although it’s only 271 pages, it took me 12 hours to read it because I wanted to savor every word and let it soak in.
This is the first installment of a series of articles about the media, finance industry, political, and Department of Justice (DOJ) reaction to Michael Lewis’ new book about high frequency trading (HFT). The media ballyhooed the book as if it were an amazing revelation of a fact of surpassing importance. The industry demonized the book and Lewis. DOJ immediately announced it had begun a criminal investigation and the SEC it had multiple investigations pending. Whether the industry or Lewis is correct about HFT practices (which he asserts are lawful) is unimportant for some purposes. My series will focus on the difference between the frenzied DOJ, political, and media reaction to Lewis’ criticism of allegedly lawful HFT practices and the “yawn” reaction of these same groups to the vastly more damaging criminal frauds runs by our elite financial leaders that caused the financial crisis is astronomical, ludicrous, and disastrous.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ordering Michael Lewis’ new book “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” – and I’m ordering it today.
Of course, Michael Lewis is the author of two of the biggest-selling books ever written about Wall Street: “Liar’s Poker” (1990), an autobiographical portrait of excessively greedy bond traders during the 1980s, and “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” (2010), which chronicles the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession in 2007.
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Chalk one up for the good guys.
The IEX exchange, a new stock platform that launched Oct. 25 of last year, was designed to negate the advantage that Wall Street’s high-frequency traders have over everyone else.
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