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Wall Street: The Speed Traders

Name: Wall Street: The Speed Traders
Uploaded: 2010-10-10T20:45:00-0400
Duration: 13 min 35 s
Description: Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world of "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands of stock trades in less than a second

Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world of "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands of stock trades in less than a second