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近距离了解股票市场的高频率交易 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Once, stocks were traded through the open outcry system, with men shouting share prices on the floors of stock exchanges. But the sights and sounds of stock traders furiously exchanging securities has mostly disappeared. They have been replaced by fast, interconnected computers. Joe Saluzzi is a head of equity trading at Themis Trading in New Jersey. JOE SALUZZI: The equity market has changed. Its no longer what you see on TV, its no longer guys with colored jackets running around the floor anymore. Thats the show, thats the TV studio. The equity market is a bunch of co-located computers strung together by a bunch of wires, everyone trying to race to zero. The speed of light is the goal — the speed of light! Thats what were looking at now. Computers can process stock trades in thousandths of a second. Andrew Haines of Gain Capital is an online broker. ANDREW HAINES: A millisecond can mean millions of dollars to the success of your strategy. Having a one, two, three-millisecond advantage over other traders may mean that you get into a trade at a preferable price. Andrew Haines says an estimated seventy percent of all stock trades are high-frequency trades made with computers. Stocks may be held for only seconds. But fast trades are also blamed for big moves in stock prices. On May sixth two thousand ten, the leading measure of American stocks briefly fell nearly one thousand points, or about nine percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average then recovered much of those losses by the end of trading that day. The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered steps to prevent future flash crashes like that one. Joel Hasbrouck of New York University says those steps are working. JOEL HASBROUCK: Theyre called circuit-breakers, and basically what they mean is that when a stock has moved by a large amount in a short period of time, theres a trading halt. Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading says the main problem with hig