Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys, a book with the difficult task of turning a mass audience on to the dry topic of high frequency trading, is having a bigger impact on a critical Wall Street discussion more than any book in memory. The reason for this is not due to the book’s intellectual heft – Scott Patterson who wrote Quants and Dark Pools and Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi who wrote Broken Markets do a better job detailing the nuts and bolts of this complex topic. The magic of Lewis, like that of a classic Disney movie, is to bring a story to…
Flash Boys Review: Lewis Takes On Wall Street Minus Heft
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
