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This made me smile
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e2f6...links/rss/home_uk/feed//product#axzz1tlu9zumi
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e2f6...links/rss/home_uk/feed//product#axzz1tlu9zumi
Two Norwegian day traders who outwitted the automated trading system of a big US broker have been cleared of all wrongdoing by the country’s highest court.
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Mr Larsen told the Financial Times that he was still getting the better of algorithmic trading systems today. “Just the other month UBS forgot to set a bottom limit on one of their algos and I got some stocks for cheap,” he said. “They even called me afterwards and asked me to reverse the trade!” He declined to do so.