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Flash Boys
Last discussed Oct 26, 2026
A book by Michael Lewis about high-frequency trading and market manipulation on Wall Street.
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Chris Williamson
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"It's like if you ever read Flash Boys, there was a whole quant trading thing where if they put your server close to the New York Stock Exchange server, you could get your trade in before the guy who was doing it through a normal server"
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"I'm going to pick on Michael Lewis here. Great writer, love his books... When he finally wrote about something I actually knew about, I went, 'Ah, this is all wrong.' Flash Boys is all..."
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