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- Book Title
- Trading at the Speed of Light
- ISBN
- 9780691211381
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Subject Area
- Social Work
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Subject
- Government, Finance, Computer Science
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets In today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the US financial system, a new approach to trading-automated high-frequency trading or HFT-began and then spread throughout the world. HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a nanosecond the fastest possible signal-light in a vacuum-can travel only thirty centimetres, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges' systems and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals between computer data centres. Drawing from more than 300 interviews with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff, regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems to favour certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the future.
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Princeton University Press
ISBN-13
9780691211381
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Subject Area
Social Work
Publication Name
Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, Finance, Computer Science
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Item Height
235 mm
Item Width
156 mm
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United States
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