High-Frequency Trading Do Machines Control Wall Street? /

Although it isn't a widely-acknowledged practice, many experts predict that high-frequency trading, invented by Wall Street firms at the turn of the 21st century, will lead to the next financial crisis. This program illustrates the basic principles of HFT, whereby a large number of computers ar...

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Other Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., Java (Firm)
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c2012.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col.
Series: Underhand Tactics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Underhand Tactics: High-Frequency Trading (1:32)
  • Public Opinions (1:19)
  • High-Frequency Trading (3:07)
  • Flash Crash (3:20)
  • What Caused the Flash Crash? (1:35)
  • Robot Traders Panic (1:07)
  • Halting the Flash Crash (2:23)
  • SEC Explanation (1:03)
  • Continued Growth of High-Frequency Trading (1:57)
  • Speed and Collocation (0:54)
  • NYSE Euronext Interview (2:19)
  • AMF: The French Stock Market Authority (1:56)
  • Annual Trade Tech Conference in Paris (2:14)
  • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud Interview (3:08)
  • Sharks Among the High-Frequency Traders (1:29)
  • Proprietary Algorithms (1:06)
  • Algorithm Theft (3:20)
  • In the Room of the High-Speed Traders (2:00)
  • Algorithm Creators (2:41)
  • Illegal Saturation (1:58)
  • Jamming (0:40)
  • Regulators Attempt to Halt the High-Speed Fraud (2:40)
  • Bluffing (1:25)
  • Dutch Trader Fined (1:52)
  • Amsterdam Trader (3:13)
  • Pirates of Finance (0:56)
  • How to Control Abuses? (1:54)
  • A Political Solution? (1:32)
  • Credits: High-Frequency Trading: Do Machines Control Wall Street? (0:25)