A Different Kind of High-Yield Investment
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 07:12 AM EDT
Only 16% of the stock market is traded by flesh-and-blood human beings. So tallies Morgan Stanley, which has been keeping tabs for the past 10 years, in a recent Financial Times article. Computerized high-frequency trades (HFTs) dominate the other 84%. These trades, known as “black box” trades, are governed by complex algorithms that analyze data [...]