>How did we end up using such easy to manipulate sources of information to have so much influence in our high frequency trading algorithms? 1) That game is abo

>How did we end up using such easy to manipulate sources of information to have so much influence in our high frequency trading algorithms? 1) That game is about being fast and first. 2) The finance world loves to try and predict the future from the past. A technical person likely tempers his/her trust in Twitter with some understanding of it and concludes that false Twitter news is likely/inevitable. A trader looks for a precedent of market movements caused by false Twitter news and concludes that a lack means a future occurrence is terribly unlikely.