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Best books to read after Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
Flash Boys investigates the world of high-frequency trading and the systematic rigging of financial markets against ordinary investors, told through the story of the team that built IEX to fix it. These 8 books extend into Wall Street culture, financial crisis, market structure, and the long history of market manipulation.
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The Big Short
by Michael Lewis
Lewis's companion investigation of the 2008 financial crisis — the same Wall Street dysfunction seen from the derivative-market perspective, with the same character-driven narrative and the same diagnosis of systemic incentive failure.
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Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis
Lewis's debut memoir of his years as a bond salesman in the 1980s — the historical backstory to the Wall Street culture that Flash Boys investigates, and the book that established Lewis's approach to financial journalism.
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Dark Pools
by Scott Patterson
An investigative account of the rise of algorithmic trading, dark pools, and the fragmentation of the American stock market — covering the same territory as Flash Boys from a journalist who has tracked these developments across multiple books.
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The Man from the Future
by Ananyo Bhattacharya
The biography of John von Neumann — the mathematician whose work in game theory, computing, and probability underlies modern financial engineering — providing the intellectual history behind the algorithmic trading world Flash Boys investigates.
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Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart
The definitive account of the 1980s insider trading scandals — Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and Drexel Burnham Lambert — establishing the long history of Wall Street market manipulation that Flash Boys continues.
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Boomerang
by Michael Lewis
Lewis's account of the European sovereign debt crisis — visiting Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany, and California to trace the aftermath of the same financial excess that Flash Boys investigates at the market-structure level.
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Chaos Kings
by Scott Patterson
Patterson's account of the 'chaos kings' — traders and funds that profit from extreme volatility and market crisis — that provides the trading-strategy context for the high-frequency trading world Flash Boys investigates.
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Too Big to Fail
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The definitive inside account of the 2008 financial crisis — the decisions made inside banks, regulators, and the government during the week Lehman Brothers collapsed — that shows the institutional failure underlying the market-structure problems Flash Boys diagnoses.
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