going up against one another there will be no trading yeah so the market will die so it'll be like skynet and then it'll just implode on itself the robots will take can't trade yeah i mean you say seventy percent of the market i want to bring up some figures that we found to just show how it's grown over the years because this is according to one research firm they said that high frequency trading in the u.s. actually markets was responsible for twenty six percent of the trading volume in two thousand and six now fifty three percent in two thousand and twelve so far but are you saying when you say seventy percent is that volume is that the number of trades executed or yeah it's all humans and tab group they've got good data their numbers have gone up and down and others say seventy percent of the reality is probably more than ninety percent of the united states market is is run by computers and algorithms maybe more maybe ninety five percent you know so the seventy percent number that i said was that's just high frequency trading ok you know but i enter neutral fund managers there. using