I'm going to go ahead and qualify this next statement by saying that I know little to nothing about high frequency trading and little about finance in general,

I'm going to go ahead and qualify this next statement by saying that I know little to nothing about high frequency trading and little about finance in general, but when Wired covers technology subjects I do have in depth knowledge about it's riddled with sloppy reporting and sensationalism. This has happened enough times that I usually skip their coverage entirely and when I do read their stories I do so with a very skeptical eye. This piece may be different, but I would have know way to know since it's outside my field. It just makes me sad that I can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. I used to love Wired. However, as I've become more and more knowledgeable about web technology and marketing over the course of my career, the more I see them as one more sensationalistic rag doing bad science and technology reporting for the mainstream.