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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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Published in:Economist Vol. 376; no. 8444; pp. 25 - 27
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 9/17/2005
Subjects:
Securities trading
Stockbrokers
Program trading (Securities)
Electronic trading of securities
Data processing in securities
Robots
Algorithms
Human-machine systems
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