#high-frequency-trading
8 episodes
#4654: Where the World's Trillions Actually Live
Pensions, sovereign funds, insurers — we break down the real hierarchy of global institutional money and how it's shifting.
#4408: What Latency Actually Buys in Trading
Why retail trading platforms advertise microsecond speeds — and why that spec doesn't matter for most traders.
#4400: Who Actually Moves the Euro-Dollar Rate?
Trade flows are just 3-5% of FX volume. Here's what actually drives the euro-dollar price.
#3346: How $500M Trades Actually Work (Not Venmo)
No, fund managers don't have a "send $50M" button. Here's the actual plumbing behind $145 trillion in assets.
#2342: How Python Ate Wall Street
Over 80% of equity trades are now executed algorithmically. How did Python libraries quietly democratize quant finance?
#1744: From Bridge Shouting to Bot Wars: A Stock Market History
How a bridge in 1602 Amsterdam created the modern market—and how bots now run the show.
#1509: The Regulatory Moat That Broke the Market
Uncover the regulatory moats and high-stakes strategies that separate elite hedge funds from the $31 trillion mutual fund market.
#470: The Billion-Dollar Millisecond: High-Frequency Trading
Discover how HFT firms use space lasers and hollow-core fiber to shave microseconds off trades in a high-stakes, winner-take-all race to zero.