Flash Boy: The Curious Case of the British Day Trader

THE inexplicable 10% drop in America's stockmarkets that occured in just a few minutes on May 6th 2010 was worrying enough, even if prices did bounce back quickly. Worse still was the realisation that nobody understood why or how it had happened. After pointing the finger in every direction, American authorities think they have a culprit: Navinder Singh Sarao, a 36-year-old British day-trader that they now want to have extradited to face a slew of criminal and civil charges.