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Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading

A great longread from Wired, technical yet understandable. Most interesting to me was the last section, where we learn that any data (including tweets and news articles) can be collected and put into an aggregate form, which is then traded on at lightning speeds.

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