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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says that is looking to identify and stop trading incidents linked to algorithmic abuses<\/a>. The self-regulatory agency is currently conducting about 170 investigations into this matter.<\/p>\n

FINRA wants to find out if any brokerage firms either engaged in algorithmic abuses to trade or did not properly supervises advisers who committed such abuses. The SRO is worried that there are algorithms that are specifically intended set off illegal, manipulative behaviors on the market. <\/p>\n

The use of algorithms to influence the markets have garnered lots of attention lately, specially with the release of author Michael Lewis\u2019s book, \u201cFlash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.\u201d He contends that high-frequency traders have the greater advantage because their extremely fast computers can manipulate stock prices to their benefit. <\/p>\n

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says that is looking to identify and stop trading incidents linked to algorithmic abuses. The self-regulatory agency is currently conducting about 170 investigations into this matter. 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