How Wall Street Computers Almost Killed Knight Trading

Knight Trading’s brush with death illustrates the degree to which computers and software—not people—dictate the ebb and flow of the stock markets, report Alex Klein and Matthew Zeitlin.

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Alex Klein

Published Aug. 7 2012 12:10PM EDT 

Matthew Zeitlin

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