You have no idea just how bonkers high-frequency trading is making the stock market until you actually see it in action. A terrifying new video by ...

As it did before the financial crisis, Wall Street is bankrolling academics to bolster its case against regulation. Then, the research gave warm tongu...

Democratic lawmakers have proposed a plan to solve two pesky, unrelated problems at once: The budget deficit and high-speed trading robots run amok. T...

* The stocks still trading on other exchanges * NYSE will not hold closing auction for affected stocks * Open orders in ...

We've seen how well robots handle stock trading, why not give them the keys to the credit-derivatives market, too? There may not be much choice: As...

What did the SEC do when it realized the danger to other investors from high-speed trading? Did it warn the American people? Order high speed trading to cease? Ban algorithms designed to cheat other investors? Absolutely not!

Having the Securities and Exchange Commission police high-speed trading is like pitting Barney Fife against Michael Corleone: The odds are not in its favor.

Thing One: Give The Robots What They Want: See, this is why nobody trusts the stock market any more. The Securities and Exchange Commission is inve...

The man who built what was possibly the first stock-trading robot now worries they have too much sway over the market. In other news, Victor Frankenst...

* Dormant software caused problem * SEC asking if glitch should have been caught By Jessica Toonkel and John McCrank ...

Drones: They're not just for killing any more. They're not just for killing people, I mean. Soon they will also be for killing your money, in the stock market.

This is what it looks like when the robots take over the stock market.

Speed traders make a fraction of a penny in fees, paid by stock exchanges, for each of the quadrillions of orders that traders can execute within mere seconds -- while losing no money, ever.

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Knight Capital Group Inc has told brokers that it has obtained a line of credit, which will allow it to operate for the day, the W...

Serious people are seriously contemplate giving Wall Street traders particle accelerators expressly for the purpose of high-speed trading.

ONE year ago, the stock market took a brief and terrifying nose-dive. Almost a trillion dollars in wealth momentarily vanished. Shares in blue-chip co...

The CBS 60 Minutes segment last night on high speed computer trading-50%-70% of all trading in stocks- strongly suggested that insiders on Wall St...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have got to address the "casino environment" on Wall Street where computerized high-frequency trading can trigge...

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The idea is straightforward: Computers take information -- primarily "real-time" share prices -- and try to predict the next twitch in the stock mark...

t is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors' orders and, critics say, even sub...