“I needed someone from the industry to verify that what I was saying was real,” said Brad. He needed, specifically, someone from deep inside the world of high-frequency trading. He’d spent the better part of a year cold-calling strangers in search of an HFT strategist willing to defect. He now suspected that every human being who knew how high-frequency traders made money was making too much money doing it to stop and explain what was going on. He needed to find another way in.
