Dark Pools - The rise of A.I. trading machines looming threat to Wall Street

Informationen zum Autor Scott Patterson worked for several years as a financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal . He lives in New York. His previous book The Quants (Random House Business, 2009) was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Klappentext Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots - many so self-directed that humans can't predict what they'll do next.It's the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these 'bots'. And it's a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge of global meltdown. 'Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don't notice.' Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Antifragile , Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan Zusammenfassung Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Patterson, Patterson Scott
• Publisher: Random House Business
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9781847940988
• ISBN: 978-1-84794-098-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Finance, LAW / Securities, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Capital Markets & Securities Law & Regulation, Capital markets and securities law and regulation, Finance and the finance industry