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Peter Gibbons Explains Flash Trading

September 18, 2009 By Steven Place

Peter: Alright, so when the trading algorithm sees a trade com across, right, it puts an order in front of the trade and we make money on the spread. And we drop the spread into an account at Goldman.

Joanna: So, you're stealing.

Peter: Uh, no. No, you don't understand. It's uh-- it's very complicated. It's uh-- it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And, uh, over time they add up to a lot.

Joanna: Oh, okay. So, you're gonna make a lot of money, right?

Peter: Yeah.

Joanna: Right? That's not yours?

Peter: Uh, well, it becomes ours.

Joanna: How is that not stealing?

Peter: I don't think, uh-- I don't think that I'm explaining this very well.

Joanna: Okay.

Peter: Um, the 7-Eleven, right?

Joanna: Mm-hmm.

Peter: You'd take a penny from the tray.

Joanna: From the crippled children?

Peter: No, that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. The-- You know, the pennies f-for everybody."

Joanna: Oh, for everybod-- Okay.

Peter: Yeah, well, those are whole pennies.

Joanna: Right.

Peter: Alright? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. Okay? But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple of million times a day.

Peter: So what's wrong with that?

Joanna: I don't know. It just seams wrong.

Peter: It's not wrong. We're making markets. We're providing liquidity. Alright? The Fed is wrong. Doesn't it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and you have to put on a bunch of pieces of flair?

Joanna: Yeah, but I'm not about to go in and start taking money from the register.

A little known fact: Ben Bernanke wears 23 pieces of flair.

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