On this week radio show we discuss Michael Lewis’s new book Flash Boys and the his claim that the market is rigged.
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The U.S. stock market is rigged in favor of high-speed electronic trading firms, which use their advantages to extract billions from investors, according to Michael Lewis, author of a new book on the topic, “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.”
High-frequency trading (HFT) is a practice carried out by many banks and proprietary trading firms using sophisticated computer programs to send gobs of orders into the market, executing a small portion of them when opportunities arise to capitalize on price imbalances, or to make markets. HFT makes up more than half of all U.S. trading volume.
To listen to part 2 of the show where we discuss strategies you can use to have confidence in a rigged market click here:
http://equity4profit.com/confidence-rigged-market/
