#Quant

Algorithmic trading is the electronic alchemist that mines the chaotic mass of market data for jewels of profit. It ruthlessly excludes any room for human emotion while chasing the faintest price flickers at light speed. Calmly exploiting market panics, it also mercilessly eats away at traders sleep. If successful, it is hailed as a hero; if it fails, it is sacrificed at the altar of the black box. It calculates destiny in an instant, pretending as if the future does not exist—a cold-blooded mechanical poet.