I fail to see what possible connection this has to reality. I could dig up my old economics text book and trot out my old economics theory, but I don't have to. What possible change of the value of a good or service can take place in time scales of less than a milisecond? Computer trading systems are a fraud perpetrated by people that have a severe need of a reality check!!!

As the parent post alluded to all this serves is to make a dynamic system less stable. If the actions super rich (who else uses these devices) people didn't affect the likes of the rest of us I wouldn't care if they wanted to play these games! However, their nonsense like trading in derivatives have put the whole world monetary system in jeopardy!!!

Further, if like me you believe in the conspiracy theories of history (and if you don't then you are ignoring that conspiracies are ubiquitous in history), this may be the goal of the elites - to bring down the current ponzi scheme (the federal reserve system) so that they can reap the benefits of using the collapse to obtain real assets from the rest of us and put in place another fiat currency that lasts for another hundred years before they collapse that one too!!!