When Pipeline Chairman Alfred Berkeley III spoke to Steve Forbes in an Intelligent Investing interview in March, Berkeley described the intelligence game with high-frequency traders on Wall Street.

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The heads of Themis Trading, a firm deep in the middle of all this, every day, published another book, Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio.

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Matin then contacted his college friend Mahmoud and convinced him to leave his job on Wall Street, where he was building high frequency trading systems, to join the company as well.

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