According to Michael, “Flash Boys” is all about how another group of venture firms has schemed with the financial firms and the stock traders to utilize sophisticated programming calculations to skim pennies. The group skim money from the genuine financial specialists who give value cash flow to the economy. Michael narrates a story through diverse cast of characters who come to comprehend this cutting edge scalping operation, and attempt to do something to defeat it.
The ethical champion in Flash Boys is Brad Katsuyama, an exceptionally well-paid stock merchant at the Royal Bank of Canada, who evaluated that the high-recurrence fellows were front-running his requests. Utilizing fiber-optic links that connection superfast machines to expedites, the High Frequency Trading caught and purchased his requests, offering the shares once again to him at a higher value, and pocketing the edge. The mother of all plans is an 827-mile link going through mountains and under waterways from Chicago to New Jersey that diminishes the adventure of information from 17 to 13 milliseconds. A transoceanic link still under development will give a 5.2 millisecond focal point to those looking to benefit from the spread exchange between New York and London. Persuaded that a level playing field was a superior business suggestion, Katsuyama reacted by serving to dispatch a completely straightforward trade (IEX), to guarantee that exchanging data achieves all speculators in the meantime. (Lewis, p. 56)
Lewis states that we can resign the myth that fund is a clean amusement for all rather than a colloquialism machine, or even a bloodsucker squid, for sucking up income for the incredibly wealthy 1%.
Maybe this likewise clarifies why such a variety of government drives have lined up to demonstrate how enthusiastically they are chasing down wrongdoers on Wall Street. For one thing, their direct pursuit of the lowlifes is a helpful reaction to the accord see that chose authorities have been careless in getting serious about the profoundly plugged transgressions of the money business. It may be late in the day, yet here we are, endeavoring to nail the swindlers! What's more, maybe all the more imperatively, the implicit objective of the controllers is to guarantee that the figment of business reasonableness is kept up. Now and again, that obliges making a display by tossing out a percentage of the rotten one
The High Frequency Trading embarrassment is just the most recent proof that the stock exchange's clubby insiders have constantly delighted in leverage from better and speedier data. The fiction of equivalent access is important to draw the Punters into the gambling club, and to guarantee that the business gets away from the destiny of being intensely managed. Lewis goes above and beyond: he doesn't assume that the controllers can do a whole lot whatsoever, so he showcases how the business can change itself.
The ethical champion in Flash Boys is Brad Katsuyama, an extremely well-paid stock merchant at the Royal Bank of Canada, who evaluated that the high-recurrence fellows were front-running his requests. Utilizing fiber-optic links that connection superfast machines to handles, the High Frequency Traders blocked and purchased his requests, offering the shares once more to him at a higher value, and pocketing the edge. The mother of all plans is 827-mile link going through mountains and under waterways from Chicago to New Jersey that decreases the voyage of information from 17 to 13 milliseconds. A transoceanic link still under development will give a 5.2 millisecond preference to those looking to benefit from the spread exchange between New York and London. Persuaded that a level playing field was a superior business recommendation, Katsuyama reacted by serving to dispatch a completely straightforward trade (IEX), to guarantee that exchanging data achieves all speculators in the meantime. (Lewis, p. 48)
Lewis has composed a powerful report, however in belligerence for the "business bravery" of IEX's authors. He winds up cleaning the myth of the business as an altering toward oneself instrument. Left to it gadgets, and drawing on the non-stop development of the account business. The business will flush out contamination and return to its kindhearted condition of nature in which all members have an equivalent shot at pulsating one another. As indicated by this situation, the disappointment of the controllers is destined. Plus, the second-string graduates who take government employments in regulation can never beat the brainiacs who group to Wall Street. (Lewis, p. 56)
How about we be clear around one thing. The failure to put "banksters" in the slammer has nothing to do with the market's undetectable hand or the mental prevalence of the quantitative examiners who make calculations for the supercomputers. Rather, it is a gruff impression of the force of the loan boss class to hold chose authorities in thrall. Lawyer general Eric Holder's admitted in the senate that the funds in the stock exchange market were very ‘huge’. This would have been impossible prison", was a genuine affirmation of the ineptitude of such authorities. It affirmed the developing recognition that the US has joined the positions of fizzling majority rule governments. The governments can't ensure their obligation loaded citizenry from financial harm brought about by the "meritocracy" (Lewis, p. 64).
The heavy fines doled out lately to most of the money keeping and lending in America are currently only viewed as the wrist-slapping expense of working together. Government prosecutors are currently undermining to bring criminal indictments against BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse. Nobody hopes to see top administrators in cuffs whenever soon. Mass monetary noncompliance as obligation refusal is more probable and would be a more powerful danger to Wall Street and other managing an account focuses; however it is far away at present.
On the off chance that the brouhaha around Flash Boys serves to appropriate a kind sized meltdown consequently activated by the High Frequency Trading machines. The "glimmer accident" of 2010, which saw a 1,000 point swing in the Dow, was a development cautioning, and then it will have done some great. How about we inquire as to why the distribution of the book, for example, Matt Taibbi's? The Divide has produced such a great deal less consideration. Referring to his report in 2008 about the accident, Taibbi completely points of interest the record of investors' impropriety and blackmail. The result ought to lesson everybody who has been on the wrong end of the cunning moneylenders. There are also warped gathering operators, illicit dispossession, PPI shams and different cheats that are viewed as nothing new by the fund business. The hoodwinks in Lewis' story are the Wall Street intermediaries and support stock investments administrators who were beaten by blaze young men "who would offer their grandmas for a microsecond". The exploited people in Taibbi's book are whatever is left of us. According to Lewis, the United States of America stock market activities have now been undertaken unethically by traders. The traders go beyond the rules and regulation of trading to fight their rivals. These traders always siphon billions of dollars from innocent individuals who go online to buy shares. These traders according to Lewis always use high speeding machines to be able to go ahead of their rivals.
According to Lewis, the increase in the use of High Frequency Trading has been encouraged by the rules and regulations passed in 2005. Its goals were to open larger and bigger stock exchange facilities such as the New York Stock Exchange. The crucial objective of this Act was to ensure stock exchange competition stiff; instead it has unleashed the worst monster of unethical behaviours by traders. According to Lewis and other peoples critical view, the fact that there the act of algorithm front-running by some traders who use superfast connecting network will always make it unfair for share buyers and sellers.
According to Gapper, the traders using superfast networks to act before others do are in-line with the set regulations. These behaviours have ended up bringing scandals in the financial market. The act was put into place to break monotony by large financial industries and to enhance competitiveness in the stock exchange market.
Conclusion
The book “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis addresses the unethical behaviour which is brought about by regulations that are not well calculated and thought off. These unethical behaviours by traders, prevents and keeps away innocent people who want to involve themselves with the stock market business.
References
Lewis. M (2014) Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt Thorndike Press
