Flash Boys: High-frequency revolution on Wall Street

Flash Boys, published on April 1, 2014, made a splash in the financial world of America. In the first week, 130,000 copies were sold, and the FBI announced the beginning of the investigation against high -frequency trading (HFT) This only confirms that the author of the book, the American writer and financial journalist Michael Lewis, fell into the most sore point of the modern stock market, which is considered an icon of global capitalism, but in fact is a scam started by stock exchanges, large banks and high -frequency traders.
The small group of guys with Wallstit exposed this scam. Working for different companies, they abandoned high -paid posts, found allies in each other and, rallying, went to the war path against financial collapses. The crown of their struggle was the establishment of an independent exchange, rightly arranged in relation to all market participants.
The book will be interesting to everyone who is involved in exchange trade and who are interested in its secret mechanisms