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• What's Right and Wrong with Stock Trading System

  8:18 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  It's a brave new world of securities trading and new worries for the public.

• The Key Players

  8:59 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  There are nearly 50 trading venues. Customers can interact in all of them--making today's trading so complicated.

• Tracing Trades Through Electronic Maze

  1:49 PM ET Wed, 15 Sept 2010

  How does an order flow? How does it actually execute? Who facilitates the trade?

• How Did We Get Here?

  6:03 PM ET Mon, 13 Sept 2010

  Ah, the good old days of 1960. It was pretty simple then. Not so in 2010. Here's a brief history.

• HFT: The Good and the Bad

  9:12 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  More than half of all stock trades are the result high-frequency trading. Does that put the system at risk?

• Changes in Market Structure

  10:34 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  The SEC is working to improve the way it monitors and regulates the markets. Here's what needs to be done.

• Man Vs. Machine: The New Kings Of Wall Street

  1:32 PM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  High-frequency trading has spawned a new breed of market mavens far different than the traditional Wall Street titans.

• Rise Of The Machines

  9:17 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  The May 2010 Flash Crash helped draw attention to how fragmented the stock market has become and how potentially illiquid it can be in an era of high-speed, computer trading.

• The ETF Monster

  8:58 AM ET Wed, 22 Sept 2010

  Worries about the role ETFs play in changing the nature of how people invest and the market’s high correlation to itself.

• Stock-Pickers, A Dying Breed?

  9:19 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  There is genuine concern that changes in market trading structure are leading to the death of stock-picking as we know it.

• Changing Exchanges

  10:15 AM ET Fri, 17 Sept 2010

  Are NYSE and Nasdaq conflicted? They serve both shareholders, and investors, to whom they must maintain a transparent marketplace.

• Four Ways Retail Investors Can Fight Back Against HFT

  6:56 PM ET Fri, 17 Sept 2010

  Four ways individual investors can fight back against a high-tech army. The trick may be to join them.

• Inside the Machine

  10:55 AM ET Thu, 27 June 2013

  An editor's journey into the world of high-frequency trading and proprietary algorithms that make or break markets.

• Seven Major Players in High-Frequency Trading

  9:29 AM ET Tue, 14 Sept 2010

  These hotshots aren't household names. Until recently, they've shunned the limelight.

• Here’s A Tip: The SEC Caused The Flash Crash

  11:54 AM ET Wed, 15 Sept 2010

  When the SEC reveals the results of its investigation, it's a good bet it won't finger the real culprit: itself.

• Man Vs. Machine: A User's Guide to the Brave New World of Stock Trading

  4:41 PM ET Mon, 13 Sept 2010

  The days of shares "changing hands' are long gone. Now it is man and machine, and sometimes, man vs. machine.  Here's a look at the  players, companies, technologies and trading platforms.