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7 August 2012

GIF of the day: Skynet is in your stock exchanges, taking your money

High frequency trading has experienced a boom in the last five years. What next?

By Alex Hern

Reuters’ finance blogger Felix Salmon presents the above animated gif, which shows the quantity of high frequency trades happening throughout the day in 14 American stock exchanges, charted between 2007 and 2012.

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