Dark Pools

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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

  • An invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market.

    Financial Times
  • [A] gripping, excellent expose

    PQ Magazine
  • A great read … and raises an important question: could the trading machines destroy the capital markets?

    Reuters UK
  • 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
  • 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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