Research and analysis

Computer trading: quantifying instabilities and risks

Report on the instabilities and risks arising from high speed trading.

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Brave new world: quantifying the new instabilities and risks arising in subsecond algorithmic trading (DR27)

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This report examines subsecond algorithmic trading in order to quantify the new instabilities and risks that arise.

This review was commissioned as part of the Foresight project on the future of computer trading.

Published 23 October 2012