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Dark Pools

The Rise of A.I. Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street

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Dark Pools

By: Scott Patterson
Narrated by: Byron Wagner
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Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.

It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge of global meltdown.

©2012 Scott Patterson (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
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Critic reviews

"Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don’t notice." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of "Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan")
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Should be in the library of ever person actively invested or working in the investment markets.

Great book.

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As a participant in the field of automated trading over the last 15 years, I found this far more balanced, interesting, accurate and less emotive than "Flash Boys".

Much better than Flash Boys

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Very good story telling. Narrated well. The story of electronic trading evolution to feed human greed.

good story of electronic trading

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brilliant book, I strongly recommend for anyone who is interested in Algorithmic trading and capital markets

brilliant book

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An insightful and entertaining read of the world of finance.
I couldn’t help but feel like the author adored and sanctified the architects of doom. He describes their brilliance and endless greed with the same tone of praise.

He gets some of the technical aspects wrong, but covers enough for a layman to understand, after all he is a a financial journalist and not a quantitative analyst.

All in all, it’s one of the best books going on the issue.

A hagiography of prophets of doom

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interesting story, really well written and researched. this is as good as the flash boys. thought the narration was excellent

Fantastic book and narration

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I'd anticipated that this book would be about dark pools and hedge funds gaming the market. It's not, but it's better than that, it's really the story of how high frequency trading came to be and an inside look at some of the key characters that revolutionised market trading. I loved it, fascinating stuff all the way through.

Not what I expected, but great.

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An interesting insight into the very technical world of quant trading that so many retail day traders struggle to understand. A great read if you know nothing of algo trading.

Educational insight

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it's an interesting story of some key characters in the US market in the evolution to electronic trading and where we are today

Good background. It's a nice story

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Surely it’s a bit dated given topic it tries to cover nevertheless a great book

Well written

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