In any trading market–at any time in history, no matter where you are–the most important thing you can possess isn’t actually money, or influence, or anything like that. Knowledge– in particular, knowing something before everybody else–is far more valuable.
Some traders are willing to go to great lengths to get information before anyone else. In some cases, they’ll apply great ingenuity to the problem, but in others they’ll use manipulation: hacking into these technologies to gain an unfair advantage, and make a fortune along the way–check it out...