Argos: Fast Cash

from vpro international:

VIDEO: High Frequency Trading is hotly debated since the book ‚Flash Boys’ from Michael Lewis. With his accusation that the markets are rigged whistle-blower Brad Katsuyama put High Frequency trading in the public spotlights. In this visualized radio-documentary VPRO’s Argos, a Dutch public research program investigates the money making techniques of High Frequency trading and looks into the ‘Dutch Flash Boys case’ concerning a test trade which sparked the debate in the Netherlands.
How fast must trading go? And how fair is buying shares with scalpers watching your trades?

With Brad Katsuyama, Eric Hunsader, Mark Spanbroek, Albert Menkveld, Alexandre Lamounier, Paul Koster, Regulator‚Paul Willem van Gerwen
Directed and presented by: Hansje van de Beek en Stefan Heijdendael