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High-speed trading film is worth more than a millisecond of your time

Strong performances from Jesse Eisenberg and co lift ‘The Hummingbird Project’

Salma Hayek is one of the high-profile actors lifting the Hummingbird Project, playing hedge fund manager Eva Torres
Salma Hayek is one of the high-profile actors lifting the Hummingbird Project, playing hedge fund manager Eva Torres Photo: Sebastien Raymond

Film The Hummingbird Project

Readers of Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys know there is serious money to be made from high-frequency trading, which uses computer algorithms to trade data and shares at the speed of light. But it is uncertain whether there is serious money to be made from movies about high-frequency trading.

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