Dark Pools: The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street - Softcover

"An invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market." (Financial Times)

"[A] gripping, excellent expose" (PQ Magazine)

"A great read ... and raises an important question: could the trading machines destroy the capital markets?" (Reuters UK)

"As an exposition of Wall Street nerdcraft, Dark Pools truly delivers ... Patterson's tales of ingenuity and cunning read like a spy novel" (Sunday Business Post)

"Financial journalist Scott Patterson looks at the real world of AI trading machines and crafts a story equally as riveting" (British Airways Life Magazine)

Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge of global meltdown.

‘Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don’t notice.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan