Different times Quote by Michael Lewis

“As they worked through the order types, they created a taxonomy of predatory behavior in the stock market. Broadly speaking, it appeared as if…

— Michael Lewis

“Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers…

— Max Barry

“By the middle of 2011, roughly 30 percent of all stock market trades occurred off the public exchanges, most of them in dark pools.…

— Michael Lewis

Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.

— Arthur Levitt

“The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.”

— Randy Thurman

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand…

— Benjamin Graham

“The old order types were simple and straightforward and mainly sensible. The new order types that accompanied the explosion of high-frequency trading were nothing…

— Michael Lewis

“The same system that once gave us subprime mortgage collateralized debt obligations no investor could possibly truly understand now gave us stock market trades…

— Michael Lewis

On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be…

— Alex Berenson

“The big banks and the exchanges have a clear responsibility to protect investors—to handle investor stock market orders in the best possible way, and…

— Michael Lewis

“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.”

— Michael J. Sandel

“I have always found it amazing that in exchange for paper I can get a book or a dress, that the stock market actually…

— Siri Hustvedt