Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words
will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be traded freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion,” predicted Timothy May, a bearded, pioneering engineer at Intel and one of the key founders
Flash Boys: Not So Fast: An Insider's Perspective on High-Frequency Trading
by Peter Kovac · 10 Dec 2014 · 200pp · 54,897 words
, and protection of order information, he conjures up scenarios that are impossible. The tricks of thirty years ago simply aren’t possible in today’s computerized markets, which automatically enforce these rules. Brokers can no longer stick a customer with an off-market price. All trades, broker or customer, must occur only
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
by Alvin E. Roth · 1 Jun 2015 · 282pp · 80,907 words
to the buyer. That is far from an efficient adaptation to a changing world, but it’s a start. Computerized Markets Although the Internet has so far failed to transform the housing market, computerized markets have, as we have seen, made enormous changes in other areas. Computers not only make markets ubiquitous and fast
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offers and, 9–10 for medical school graduates, 135–36 price-based vs. speed-based, 85–88 simplicity in, 26–27 speed in, 81–99 computerized markets, 225–26 “Confessions of a Bad Apple” (Kozinski), 93 congestion, 9–10, 92–93, 99–112 commodity markets and, 17 credit cards and, 24 dangers
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words
a whole has little interest in stopping such wasteful activities. The more treacherous it becomes for outsiders to trade in the brave new world of computerized markets, the more they have to pay some knowledgeable insider a fee to fend off the piranhas. Also note here how signals about value are being
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the technology they had developed.128 Though prices returned to normal the same day, there is no guarantee future markets will be so lucky. The Computerized Market HFT is the ultimate in fi nancial self-reference, where perceptions of value come entirely from signals encoded on trading terminals. Lately, the limiting factor
How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite
by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter · 30 Jun 2007
by State Street Global Advisors in 1996. Lattice is an advanced alternative trading system that integrates order-matching with order-routing and connects to global computerized markets. In 1975, as director of Computer Research at Keystone Funds in Boston, he completed what is generally regarded as the first equity program trade. During
Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis
by Kevin Rodgers · 13 Jul 2016 · 318pp · 99,524 words
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
by Michael Lewis · 30 Mar 2014 · 250pp · 87,722 words
the same time, so they needed an intermediary to bridge the gap, to buy from the seller and to sell to the buyer. The fully computerized market moved too fast for a human to intercede in it, and so the high-frequency traders had stepped in to do the job. Their importance
This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers
by Andy Greenberg · 12 Sep 2012 · 461pp · 125,845 words
will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be traded freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not
The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak: The Terms You Need to Know to Talk Like Cramer, Think Like Soros, and Buy Like Buffett
by Jack (edited By) Guinan · 27 Jul 2009 · 353pp · 88,376 words
194 The Investopedia Guide to Wall Speak Related Terms: • Margin • Regulation T—Reg T • Short Squeeze • Option • Stock Option Nasdaq What Does Nasdaq Mean? A computerized market or exchange that facilitates trading by providing price quotations on more than 5,000 actively traded overthe-counter stocks. Created in 1971, the Nasdaq was
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg · 15 Nov 2022 · 494pp · 121,217 words
will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be traded freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not