# Professor Bernard Donefer discusses the role of automated trading in stock market fluctuations

1 Faculty News February 6, 2018 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/06/economy/dow-dive-computers-might-have-caused) -- "Floors don’t really have traders. It’s being done in a computer system, in all likelihood in New Jersey. These automated trading models make the world go at speeds we really haven’t seen before."

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