Backbytes: Wall Street's crackdown on, err, software engineers

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Software engineer? Work for a hedge fund? Want to move to another one? It'll be JAIL time for you, Sonny-Jim

High-frequency trading, where the privileged elite get to profitably trade stocks in micro seconds using mathematical algorithms, is big business, accounting for between half and three-quarters of ...

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