A Bot Market

Might trading on the stock market one day be entirely run by algorithms? Conventional wisdom has been that a human will always do better than an algorithm in the long run. But the latest trading algorithms, and more importantly, the latest methods of creating trading algorithms, are making an entirely automated stock trader seem less like science fiction and more like technology that's just a breakthrough away. John Bates gives us a glimpse of the state of the art in "Algorithmic Trading."

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