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Crapshoot investing : how tech-savvy traders and clueless regulators turned the stock market into a casino

2011

Format:	Book
Author:	McTague, Jim, 1949-
Title:	Crapshoot investing : how tech-savvy traders and clueless regulators turned the stock market into a casino / Jim McTague.
Publisher, Date:	Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, ©2011.
Description:	vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	Equity markets are now high-speed casinos rigged against individual investors. Now, Barron{u2019}s Washington editor Jim McTague reveals the twin causes: high-frequency traders and blundering regulators. Learn why the Flash Crash happened (and will again) & discover titanic, uncontrolled forces driving market chaos & find rational strategies for profiting in this terrifying new environment!
Subjects:	Investment analysis -- United States. Stock exchanges -- Law and legislation -- United States. Electronic trading of securities. Stocks -- Law and legislation -- United States. Capital market -- United States.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Strange encounters -- Not your grandma's market -- Screaming headlines -- Accidental senator -- Flash crash -- Shock and awe -- Poster child -- Accident investigation -- The trouble with Mary -- and Gary -- The road to ruin -- Busted! -- Precursor -- Birth of high-frequency trading -- Evil geniuses? -- Dirty rotten scoundrels -- Dark pools -- Volatility villains -- The investigation -- The vigilantes -- The tide turns -- Letter bomb -- Scapegoat -- The real culprits -- Investing in a shark-infested market.
LCCN:	2010051301
ISBN:	9780132599689 0132599686
Other Number:	666246499
System Availability:	1
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Control Number:	285550
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Call Number:	332.64273 McTague

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