Review:I read "Dark Pools" and
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis. I was going to buy only Flash boys, but bought this book also on the high recommendations. If you are going to read one book on the subject of the impact of HFT, I suggest you pass this one, and read Flash Boys. I really found "Dark Pools" to be much less readable for two reasons. Firstly, his writing style is atrocious, it is full of hyperbole and a type of purple prose more suited to a cheap detective novel than something which requires ... Read more