Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more ...
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading—source of the most intractable problems—will have no advantage whatsoever.
The characters in Flash Boys are fabulous, each completely different from what you think of when you think “Wall Street guy.” Several have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world’s stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits.
The light that Lewis shines into the darkest corners of the financial world may not be good for your blood pressure, because if you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. But in the end, Flash Boys is an uplifting read. Here are people who have somehow preserved a moral sense in an environment where you don’t get paid for that; they have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it.
A Russian writer named Masha Leder, ... thought of Serge as an exceptionally intellectually gifted but otherwise typical Russian Jewish computer programmer, for whom technical problems became an excuse not to engage with the messy world around him. "All of Serge's life was some kind of mirage," she said. "Or a dream. He was not aware of things. He liked slender girls who loved to dance. He married a girl and managed to have three kids with her before he figures out he doesn't really know her. He was working his ass off and she would spend the money he was making. He would come home and she would cook him vegetarian dishes. He was serviced, basically." (查看原文)
"...Finance is a gambling game for people who enjoy gambling." He wasn't a gambler by nature. He preferred the deterministic world of programming to the pseudo-deterministic world of speculation, ... (查看原文)
How a small group of people discover and combat the predatory front-running of insider high frequency trading firms. Grabbing attentions like best thrillers. I'd love to see its movie adaptation
前段时间，正在竞选总统的希拉里在谈论自己的经济政策时说"focus on long-term growth over short-term gains and assure stock markets ’work for everyday investors, not just high-frequency traders‘" ，除此之外，在45分钟的演讲里，她反复多次提及高频交易，把它当作...
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A fascinating book by Michael Lewis, 是非小说类的，但很引人入胜，让人想找更多的资料阅读。就金融市场和科技结合来说，美国市场还是大大领先的。书的核心就是市场被高频交易者给劫持了，在几微秒到几毫秒的时间概念中，一笔笔金融交易发生了很多。高频交易不能算投机，实际...
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迈克尔·刘易斯 作者
浅显
懒残僧
中信出版社2015版
Harry
中信出版社2015版
Ma
混不吝先生
中信出版社2015版
3 有用 沈涵 2014-04-03 11:13:24
评书联播啊，这回讲的是超nice的加拿大人(太黑了)下定决心揭露华尔街黑幕的故事。不过论信息量还不如去听radiolab讲hst的episode
1 有用 石上泉8788 2015-10-18 00:21:33
故事讲的不错，对高频交易者的操作讲解的够详细，就是有点太过吹捧IEX了，似乎是市场的救世主。
0 有用 SweetRann 2015-08-29 20:10:15
最后读得有点索然，毕竟脑子在这方面不是特别转得过来。。。总的说来还是有收获的~特别是其中穿插一些谈判和职业案例
0 有用 滕子京 2014-10-26 13:57:04
How a small group of people discover and combat the predatory front-running of insider high frequency trading firms. Grabbing attentions like best thrillers. I'd love to see its movie adaptation
4 有用 庄常飞 2014-05-18 07:48:27
Lewis不好的作品也很好看，但这本的确算是他不好的作品，虽然了解了HFT，但看的很慢，而且看完整本书，还是他供稿给Vanity Fair的那篇关于高盛起诉俄国人的小段落最好看。
0 有用 马曳 2024-05-14 01:03:08 中国香港
这本我入行之出开始看的书，终于在清理书架计划中看完了。看完的想法是：这写的都是啥！当时我就觉得给我推荐这本书作为入门材料的同事仿佛啥也不懂，现在确认了，确实不懂
0 有用 wqh 2024-03-29 13:52:41 美国
An intriguing introduction to high-frequency trading.
0 有用 Halo Collider 2024-03-17 12:12:00 北京
叙事性成了双刃剑，使作者和读者都容易先入为主——HFT是且仅是这样一个陷阱。但现实总会比故事复杂。
0 有用 逆铭睡眼惺忪地 2024-03-08 21:37:26 美国
前辈同事虽然对书中技术上的以偏概全乃至错漏不以为然，但还是因为刘易斯的故事讲得太精彩推荐了
0 有用 我不是大头 2023-05-20 04:53:41 英国
蛮有意思的视角