Was machen die Robotor an der Börse?

Donovan thinks that the odd algorithms are just a way of introducing noise into the works. Other firms have to deal with that noise, but the originating entity can easily filter it out because they know what they did. Perhaps that gives them an advantage of some milliseconds. In the highly competitive and fast HFT world, where even one's physical proximity to a stock exchange matters, market players could be looking for any advantage.

Ein Kampf mit Algorithmen und dem Entschüsseln von Algorithmen findet schwer sichtbar an den Börsen statt. Und die Programmieren, die dies entwickeln, verdienen das im Jahr, was mithilfe von diesen Algorithmen am einem Tag ihr Chef verdient.

"This all happened pre-market when volume is low, but if this kind of burst had come in at a time when we were getting hit hardest, I guarantee it would have caused delays in the [central quotation system]," Donovan said. That, in turn, could have become one of those dominoes that always seem to present themselves whenever there is a catastrophic failure of a complex system.

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