Programmers want a bigger piece of the pie.

In high-speed frequency trading millions of trades are made in fractions of a second with no direct human intervention. It is reasonable to ask whether anybody should be making a “ton of money.” Half of U.S. equity stock trades may currently be accounted for this, but to what economically useful end?

Source:
http://www.salon.com/technology/stock_market/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2010/07/30/high_speed_frequency_tradiing_programmers

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