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wall street. another good day on wall street. this could be a really bad day on wall street. a bad day on wall street. having a good day on in the markets. not a good day nor the markets. you can t be involved in this market in the short-term, because it s too nutty. every time you tune into the financial news, it s about what s going on in the market that day. i m going over the top and buying the market right here, right now. but the market you picture in your head, the one you probably picture looking something like this is a relic of the past. sell 142! today, the market exists mostly on a bunch of computers in new jersey, computers that can execute millions of trades in incomprehensibly tiny periods of time. it s called high-frequency trading, and according to author michael lewis, it has given rise to the systemic rigging of the market, in which people pay for proximity in the computers, in order to create split-second trading advantages, allowing a small
trading advantages, allowing a small group of vested interests to engage in chase effectively computerized scalping. the market moves at the two speeds. one speed for people who pay for access to the exchanges, who put their trading machines right next to the black boxes that are actually now the exchanges and everybody else, and we re everybody else. reporter: almost everybody on wall street is making money from high-frequency traders skimming off the top, according to lewis. including the big banks and the stock exchanges themselves. lewis new book, flash pose, centers on a book called brad ca catsyama who decided to fight back. the first thing i say, is michael and bret, shame on both of you, for falsely accusing literally thousands of people and possibly scaring millions of investors in an effort to promote a business model. i believe the markets are rigged. okay, so there you go. and i also think that you re a part of the rigging.
the market moves at the two speeds. one speed for people who pay for access to the exchanges, who put their trading machines right next to the black boxes that are actually now the exchanges and everybody else, and we re everybody else. reporter: almost everybody on wall street is making money from high-frequency traders skimming off the top, according to lewis. including the big banks and the stock exchanges themselves. lewis new book, flash pose, centers on a book called brad catsyama who decided to fight back. the first thing i say, is michael and bret, shame on both of you, for falsely accusing literally thousands of people and possibly scaring millions of investors in an effort to promote a business model. i believe the markets are rigged. okay, so there you go. and i also think that you re a part of the rigging. if you want to do this, let s do this. the defenders of high-frequency trading are not taking lewis book lying down.