Gallery: You Know What's Nice on the Eyes? High-Frequency Stock Trading
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Green and Hopfengärtner will be producing two editions of the book.
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75,000 Futures is a book of financial charts that look at high-frequency trading.
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Artists Gunnar Green and Bernhard Hopfengärtner removed all the numerical context from the charts, leaving them just as shapes and colors.
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The charts come from Nanex, a company that analyzes historical financial data.
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Nanex gave every chart a strangely quotidian name.
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This chart is The Cathedral.
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