Mark Cuban Calls the Stock Market a “Platform for Hackers”

The following article from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is a great follow up to my post from yesterday, Computers on Wall Street are Buying and Selling to Themselves!.  Mark Cuban, who wrote software himself, may have a bit more knowledge on the matter than some D.C. prostitute regulator, so I am sure they have contacted him … Read more

Computers on Wall Street are Buying and Selling to Themselves!

As if we needed another story to further solidify the running joke that has become the U.S. stock market.  In this article from Bloomberg we find out that: High-frequency trading firms are drawing scrutiny from U.S. regulators seeking evidence that they may be distorting market prices by conducting transactions with themselves, said two people with … Read more