What type of effect do you think computer programs designed for trading had on the markets? Good or bad?

guitarman asked:


What % of trades are done automatically on a computer now? It seems as if the stock market can’t fall completely because these computer programs keep boosting it back up. Is a market correction even possible in the day and age of computer programmed trading?

Milo
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3 Comments

  1. Freelance
    Posted May 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

    An influx of cash into the 90s boom.

  2. silverbullet
    Posted May 15, 2009 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    The he do you think just happened.

  3. Economics' Idol
    Posted May 15, 2009 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

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