Post by ukipa on Jun 14, 2013 1:05:19 GMT 4
The WSJ shines a light on the high-speed traders who receive access to various non-government economic reports two seconds before everybody else, allowing them to make tens of millions of dollars through algorithmic trading. When a recent University of Michigan consumer report came in below expectations, for example, various firms bet nearly 7M shares that stocks would decline, which they did. And it's all perfectly legal.