Russia Tried to Learn How to Use High-Speed Trading to Rock the Market

ELK GROVE, Calif. - March 11, 2015 - PRLog -- This is the title of an article that was published on MarketWatch on Tuesday the 26th discussing the arrest of a Russian spy. According to Wikipedia high speed trading focuses on algorithms that use sophisticated technologies and computer models to trade securities. In 2012 high speed trading accounted for 50%, however this percentage appears to be dropping.
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With the many pro arguments and the negative arguments fighting each other high speed trading was at the center of an international scandal today. It appears that Russia wanted to use spies to shake U.S. financial markets as a form of cyber terrorism.

"In the book "Flash Boys," author Michael Lewis says a surprisingly large number of the people pulled in by the big Wall Street banks to build the technology for high-frequency trading were Russians".

However, there are some that believe high speed trading is neither dangerous or very profitable anymore. Mark Buchanan, a physicist and writer for Bloomberg who wrote the book Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics.

He writes, "Whether it is by the entry of a new destructively creative technology, or the inexorable forces of entry and expansion in a technologically static setting, one expects profits earned by firms in one wave of creative destruction to decline. That's what we're seeing in HFT. It as definitely a disruptive technology that reaped substantial profits at the time of its introduction, but those profits are eroding."

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