Flash Boys
Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.
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What Hacker News says
- The speed of light limits fibre speed which in turn limits high-frequency trading.
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis was a fun read on the subject. One memorable quote alleged that HFT traders would "sell their grandmothers for a microsecond [of edge]"
- I love Michael Lewis’ writing style! I have probably read half of the books in this blog article and can remember hardly any of them, but I could still summarize Flash Boys because it was such a cool story.
- Michael Lewis wrote a ton on this topic. He's not Canadian, but his books are really good, if financial non-fiction is your thing. He wrote The Big Short, among others (Flash Boys is a good one).
- I'm also no expert, but from reading around the subject a little (Flash Boys by Michael Lewis was pretty cool, also Jane Street's podcast has some fantastic information)... no. I doubt you'd be on a public cloud if low-latency trading is what you're doing.
- While they are out of date and not too technical (and arguably, quite biased), the two books that I've enjoyed the most on this topic are:
1. Dark Pools, by Scott Patterson, and 2. Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis.
- Check out books Dark Pools and Flash Boys for some stories about HFT...
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-Scott-Patterson-audiobook/...
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Michael-Lewis-audiobook/dp...
