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		tptacek on July 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A trading platform that outlaws what it sees as ab... Flash Boys is a god-awful mess. Two better alternatives: Kovacs' _Flash Boys: Not So Fast_ which in the best possible way reads like a long-form ELI5 Reddit post about modern trading and all the WTFWAT moments in Lewis' book: http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F... Patterson's _Dark Pools_ which tells the story of Island and the ECNs and the advent of automated trading. Patterson is more ambivalent about HFT than Kovacs, and does a good job of explaining the Core Wars phenomenon of modern trading from '98 to the mid-'00s.

Donch on July 3, 2015 [–]

Read all three! Thanks for the reading list extension and gratuitous downvote :-)

cpach on July 4, 2015 | | [–]

As you very well know, HN votes are anonymous. Why make assumptions about who voted? It doesn't contribute to the discussion at all.

tptacek on July 3, 2015 | | [–]

I upvoted you.

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