Word: milliseconds
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...only a tiny fraction of that by the floor traders, who now function mainly as a colorful backdrop for CNBC broadcasts. Virtually all stock-trading is electronic, and somewhere from 45% to 70% of trading volume is done by high-frequency traders who make their money by the millisecond...
...trading has plunged. It's a market in which exchanges do constant battle over trading volume. The biggest volume generators at the moment are high-frequency trading firms you've never heard of - GETCO, founded a whopping 10 years ago, is the granddaddy - that try to get ahead of millisecond-by-millisecond price movements and take advantage of rebates paid by exchanges to those who create liquidity (that is, offer to buy or sell stock at a certain price and assume the market risk). Not surprisingly, the exchanges cater to these firms - with flash orders and "co-location" arrangements that...
Shortcuts, for example, make us more prone to do whatever everyone else is doing - or whatever Jim Cramer tells us to do. "The brain cannot afford to re-evaluate on a millisecond by millisecond basis. So it will use other people's opinion as a proxy for its own," says Emory University neuroeconomist Gregory Berns, author of the new book Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently...
More than a year later, in the days after TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the public, politicians, investigators and grieving family members waited tensely while scuba divers searched for clues. Eventually the recorder was found, its body remarkably undamaged. But it played back only a millisecond of a mysterious loud noise. The box was one of the old models, and didn't have the extra capacity to record in the midst of a catastrophe like the one on TWA Flight...
...Congratulations to all of you, especially Luke Hayman, Arthur Hochstein, Cynthia Hoffman and D.W. Pine. The new layout is beautiful, elegant and easy to read. Let us not go back to the hodgepodge it has been in recent years. TIME readers are not people with millisecond attention spans. We can manage to read an entire story, even if it covers more than one page. We do not like to be fed abbreviated snippets. Thank you for the redesign. Ellen K. Parrella, NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT...