Cyborg Trading — a high-frequency trading solution for everyday investors who want the immense feeling of gratification that comes from manipulating the system to one’s advantage.
Perhaps it’s time to revisit our true feelings about the Financial Masters of the Universe. If we had the ability to game the system, and use advanced algorithms and super computer clusters to steal billions of dollars from the bank accounts of laughably archaic analog stock traders, wouldn’t we?
After all, it’s not the big-time traders’ fault that they have access to a system which allows them to play Richard Pryor in Superman III. In the words of Peter Gibbons,
“[At] the 7-11. You take a penny from the tray, right…? You know the pennies that are for everybody? Well those are whole pennies, right? I’m just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.”
There you go. Why bother with regulation and reign-ins when we can provide premium cheats to every man, woman, and child? This is capitalism folks. First one to grow a conscience loses.
