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Slowing Down the Predatory Traders

Geoff Riley

17th February 2017

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A stunning Newsnight piece here on two of the "heroes" in Flash Boys written by Michael Lewis who have now started a new stock exchange to protect investors from being picked off by the speed merchants - the high speed traders looking to exploit minute differences in the speed of access to stock markets to make money.

Slowing Down the Predatory Traders
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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