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Dark Pools
- Author
- Scott Patterson
- Narrator
- Byron Wagner
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 2 October 2014
- Run Time
- 11 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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
Critics Review
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An invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market.
Financial Times
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[A] gripping, excellent expose
PQ Magazine
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A great read … and raises an important question: could the trading machines destroy the capital markets?
Reuters UK
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As an exposition of Wall Street nerdcraft, Dark Pools truly delivers ... Patterson's tales of ingenuity and cunning read like a spy novel
Sunday Business Post
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Financial journalist Scott Patterson looks at the real world of AI trading machines and crafts a story equally as riveting
British Airways Life Magazine
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Journalistic in style, nice scary ending ... Any serious CFO, CIO, Chancellor, market regulator or investor should read this
BookGeeks
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Gruelling and terrifying, Patterson questions the future of the human inquisitive mind
European CEO
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A fascinating and completely terrifying tale … It is a terrific read, both for a history of high frequency trading well told, and for a different kind of perspective on what’s gone so wrong with finance. If you really want to scare yourself, pair it with Robert Harris’ The Fear Index
Enlightenmenteconomics.com
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Details
- Author
- Scott Patterson
- Narrator
- Byron Wagner
- Duration
- 11 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 October 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473507692
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Artificial intelligence, Finance and the finance industry, Capital markets and securities law and regulation
Synopsis
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
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