The march of the robo-traders.

The article discusses whether computer programs that buy and sell shares will replace human stockbrokers. Simple software-based traders are now becoming far more sophisticated, and make trades worth tens of billions of dollars every day. They are proving so successful that in the equity markets, whe...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 376; no. 8444; pp. 25 - 27
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 9/17/2005
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