"Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of how many of our most important financial markets have transformed from physical trading floors on which human beings trade face-to-face, into electronic systems within which computer algorithms trade with each other. Tracing the emergence of...

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Performing Theory? -- 2 Transforming Finance -- 3 Theory and Practice -- 4 Tests, Anomalies, and Monsters -- 5 Pricing Options -- 6 Pits, Bodies, and Theorems -- 7 The Fall -- 8 Arbitrage -- 9 Models and Markets -- Appendix A An Example of Modigliani and Miller's...