Geek who brought chaos to the financial world – from his bedroom in his parents’ semi in Hounslow

BOOK OF THE WEEK FLASH CRASH    by Liam Vaughan (William Collins £20, 272 pp) Nearly a decade ago, a joke appeared on the internet chat forums used by traders in the financial markets. ‘One day, years from now,’ it ran, ‘a trading desk will typically consist of three things. A man, a dog and a … Read more