Dark Pools
The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street
Published on 4. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-84794-098-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
'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
'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
Reviews / Votes
An invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market. * Financial Times * [A] gripping, excellent expose * PQ Magazine * A great read ... and raises an important question: could the trading machines destroy the capital markets? * Reuters UK * As an exposition of Wall Street nerdcraft, Dark Pools truly delivers ... Patterson's tales of ingenuity and cunning read like a spy novel * Sunday Business Post * Financial journalist Scott Patterson looks at the real world of AI trading machines and crafts a story equally as riveting * British Airways Life Magazine * Journalistic in style, nice scary ending ... Any serious CFO, CIO, Chancellor, market regulator or investor should read this * BookGeeks * Gruelling and terrifying, Patterson questions the future of the human inquisitive mind * European CEO * A fascinating and completely terrifying tale ... It is a terrific read, both for a history of high frequency trading well told, and for a different kind of perspective on what's gone so wrong with finance. If you really want to scare yourself, pair it with Robert Harris' The Fear Index * Enlightenmenteconomics.com *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84794-098-8 (9781847940988)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2012
1st Edition
Cornerstone Digital
€10.99
Available for download
Person
Scott Patterson worked for several years as a financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York. His previous book The Quants (Random House Business, 2009) was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.