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Machine vs. Machine

Computerized trading has made any kind of contemplation or skill in trading meaningless. Between 50 and 70 percent and Wall Street trades are not made by humans, but by an algorithm

I usually can't stand NPR financial reporting. It's as bad as the crap on MSNBC, but with stupid music clips and the same nasally, whiney commentators (do they all go to a special school to learn to talk like that?) But there are some exceptions.

Here's one of them.