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1 New York Times Bestseller With a new AfterwordIn Michael Lewis s game changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders They band together some of them walking away from seven figure salaries to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. New Read Flash Boys Author Michael Lewis For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Considering this is about my husband, I might bethan a little biased.Honestly investment and stock exchange is something that bores me to death so I was putting off having to read this one for a while and today I forced myself to get it over with I was surprised to find that the book was really interesting though, I had no clue about High Frequency Traders or dark pools or even the arrest of Sergey Aleynikov which is honestly absurd I think the information was accessible and easy to understand but I don t think it would be interesting to anyone who didn t have Honestly investment and stock exchange is something that bores me to death so I was putting off having to read this one for a while and today I forced myself to get it over with I was surprised to find that the book was really interes...The new book by Michael Lewis criticizing high frequency trading has created quite a stir I m imaging what a PR response might look like, though not an entirely serious one It s structured in FAQ format, but the questions aren t really frequently asked so much as ones I d like to answer The ideal audience would be the inquiring readers of Flash Boys open to a counterbalance.Q Who is this Michael Lewis guy and why has this book been making such a splash Lewis is an influential writer with a t The new book by Michael Lewis criticizing high frequency trading has created quite a stir I m imaging what a PR response might look like, though not an entirely serious one It s structured in FAQ format, but the questions ...Shining a light creates shadowsMichael Lewis, Flash Boys There was a temptation to write my review before I had finished reading To get there first before other reviewers This race to be first, however, sometimes requires a pause, a reflection, about what speed, transparency, fairness actually requires from individuals and companies The world of finance is often opaque Between executing a trade with your broker and another individual accepting that trade through their broker there is aShining a light creates shadowsMichael Lewis, Flash Boys There was a temptation to write my review before I had finished reading To get there first...This book is wonderful it is well written, engaging, and the subject is fascinating I had never given much thought to stock exchanges, trading, and the processes that occur there Michael Lewis manages to make the subject transparent and interestingHe describes the activities of so called High Frequency Trading HFT , where buy and sell orders to stock exchanges are intercepted and prevented from occurring at the stated price These HFT activities go on, largely unnoticed, though they acco This book is wonderful it is well written, engaging, and the subject is fascinating I had never given much thought to stock exchanges, trading, and the processes that occur there Michael Lewis manages to make the subject transparent and interestingHe describes the activities of so called High Frequency Trading HFT , where buy and sell orders to stock exchanges are intercepted and prevented fro...Michael Lewis explains how the stock market became such an incomprehensibly unfair system as a natural byproduct of human greed and animosity.At one brief point in history, we viewed investing as a way to make the world better off for everybody involved But then Wall Street s greed took over, starving for instant gratification, and turned investing into a zero sum game the only way they see a win is if ordinary, hard working, productive members of society lose.In Flash Boys, the financial syst Michael Lewis explains how the stock market became such an incomprehensibly unfair system as a natural byproduct of human greed and animosity.At one brief point in history, we viewed investing as a way to make the world better off for everybody involved But then Wall Street s greed took over, starving for instant gratification, and turned investing into a zero sum game the only way they see a win is if ordinary,...It s All Rigged Folks The seemingly democratic market is a class system and the name of the game is speed There is a hierarchy of speed in place and the haves are looting the have nots.Taleb made a name for himself ridiculing the markets, the experts and the traders attributing whatever money these blokes made to dumb luck Nobody can game the market, he said We all liked that Yes, they might make money, but they sure as hell do not deserve to be smug doing so Plus, at least we can also It s All Rigged Folks The seemingly democratic market is a class system and the name of the game is speed There is a hierarchy of speed in place and the haves are looting the have nots.Taleb made a name for himself ridiculing the markets, the experts and the traders attributing whatever money these blokes m...In all honesty I picked this up as Wall Street and the stock market are something I have an intetest in but little acual knowledge of Whilst definitely an interesting read and providing the right amount of shock factor, I felt like I was just skimming some areas without digesting any of the information Maybe this is to do with my own limited understanding, but it felt like the core story was dragged and repeated to reach the subsuquent length This overtelling led to any feeling of shock at th In all honesty I picked this up as Wall Street and the stock market are something I have an intetest in but little acual knowledge of Whilst definitely an interesting read and providing the right amount of shock factor, I felt like I was just skimming some areas without digesting any of the information Maybe this is to do with my own limited understanding, but it felt like the core story was dragged and repeated to reach t...On Reading RatingFor my money which, since I m neither a Wall Street tycoon, nor a Russian coding genius, isn t a whole heck of a lot this isn t Michael Lewis best work My reading experience was a mix of fascination and frustration Why the latter Lewis covers and condemns a whole bunch of different things Agreement aside, as a human who reads books, this lack of distinction is what resulted in the bulk of my star docking I d give it a 2.5 5 if half stars were street legal aro On Reading RatingFor my money which, since I m neither a Wall Street tycoon, nor a Russian coding genius, isn t a whole...Michael Lewis has given us another great read, leaving us pondering big issues about the latest wall street scam and the point of society In today s world, the information he shares about high frequency trading HFT on Wall Street feels dated before it arrives on the page before we read it before we can act on it At first I was aghast that information about the, in effect, skimming or taxing of trades on the any stock market was old this stuff was recognized in 2010 Why are we just learnin Michael Lewis has given us another great read, leaving us pondering big issues about the latest wall street scam and the point of society In today s world, the information he shares about high frequency trading HFT on Wall Street feels dated before it arrives on the page before we read it before we can act on it At first I was aghast that information about the, in effect, skimming or taxing of trades on the any stock market was old this stuff was recognized in 2010 Why are we just learning about it But of course now I realize that the folks that knew about it weren t talking why would they And the market was going up, so taxes on increases weren t as onerous to investors as it would...

Flash Boys
  • 15 March 2018
  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • 0393351599
  • Michael Lewis
  • Flash Boys