When we last left our friend Sergey Aleynikov, the Wall Street programmer had been convicted of stealing trade secrets from Goldman Sachs and sentenced to prison in 2010. Aleynikov was involved in the ...

A high-level developer for a big Wall Street firm was arrested Friday by the FBI and charged with stealing computer code that automates high-volume trading on stock and commodities markets, according ...

A recent article I wrote about the highest paid programmers provided a peek into the world of big-money, automated trading on Wall Street. In high-frequency trading (HFT), programmers eke out every ...