All in all, the documentary was an adequate introduction to a dying profession, but I wish more had been shown about what exactly the traders do. I have been trading stocks on the computer for many years, and I was still fuzzy at the end of the film about what these floor traders do.
And I wish the filmmakers had read Flash Boys. What remains in my mind long after I watched it was the scene where a trader, depicted as out of touch with technology (and he may have been), told his computer-savvy friend that the computer cheats. If only they had read Flash Boys, is my recurrent thought. He was onto something!
And I wish the filmmakers had read Flash Boys. What remains in my mind long after I watched it was the scene where a trader, depicted as out of touch with technology (and he may have been), told his computer-savvy friend that the computer cheats. If only they had read Flash Boys, is my recurrent thought. He was onto something!