Representatives of the stock exchange in New York want to submit a draft for discussion by the Federal Securities Commission, according to which the first time in 221 year of functioning of the organized securities market, he will have the opportunity to act at all in the absence of human participation. In the meantime, we are talking only about situations, similar to "Superstorm Sandy", but this system of work can, undoubtedly, operated on simple days.
It's not just about, that the electronic trading system of the New York Stock Exchange with the name Arca will be fully applied in this case, not partly, and classic traders on the site will be absent. In a situation, when 80% all major securities transactions take place in the absence of human participation, and decisions are made and implemented on the basis of software-integrated economic models, switching to fully mechanized trade is only a matter of time.