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High-speed trading. here's a clip from your interview with the owner of liquid net, a so-called dark pool that allows institutional investors to trade large blocks of securities without wild swings in prices. >> we continue to invent things faster than the regulators can understand it. and faster than we have the ability to assess the risk of it. so what happens and what has happened is that the industry makes a tremendous amount of money creating these new types of products until it blows up the world. >> wow. i didn't even know there was a movie on this. what made you think this was somethin...

Algorith algorithms. they are trading firms that use superfast connections to take advantage of stock movements measured in fractions of a penny within fractions of a second. they do it it countless times a day. in fact, up to half of all trading volume on exchanges is now taken up by such high frequency trades. so where does ha leave the little guy? many would say at a disadvantage. some would say the little guy has always been at a disadvantage. for retail investors who stayed informsed in the stock market over the last four years they saw a gain in the s&p of 130%. disadvantage or not, that...