by Cris Sheridan, FinancialSense.com:
Most have yet to realize it, but we are now in a very strange and different world—”virtually undetectable market manipulation” by thousands upon thousands of coordinated trades generated by server farms fiber-optically connected to the world’s exchanges have figured out a way to use complexity to their advantage and shape the market for brief moments like a flock of starlings reacting to an unseen and invisible force.
/merr’meuh ray”sheuhn/, n.
1. an act or instance of murmuring.
2. a flock of starlings.
“What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.”1
