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This isn't the trading floor of the movies. It's something quieter, faster, and infinitely more predatory. When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shatters a city, a new pandemic spreads across a continent, or a nation teeters on the brink of war, the first responders are no longer medics. They are algorithms. Investigative journalist Jack S. Martin pulls back the curtain on the ""death trade"" a shadow economy where quantitative hedge funds use high-speed ""blood algorithms"" to predict and monetize human misery. Blood Algorithms takes you inside the sterile, ozone-scented rooms where ""quants""-PhDs in astrophysics and math, not finance-build the systems that trade on our collective demise. Inside this chilling exposé, you'll discover: * The Vulture's Gaze: How algorithms ""smell fear"" by scraping social media panic, satellite imagery, and even seismic sensor data to execute trades before a human can even read the news. The Architects of Ruin: Meet the programmers who ""backtest"" their models on historical tragedies like the Rwandan genocide, turning human suffering into an optimized data set. War, Incorporated: The new arms race where algorithms analyze troop movements and drone strike data in real-time to bet on defense contracts and currency collapse . The ""Automated Insider's Edge"" How ""mosaic theory"" allows algorithms to piece together thousands of public clues to reveal a secret non-public truth, blurring the line with illegal insider trading. The New Feudalism: How the ""latency tax"" and ""Payment for Order Flow"" (PFOF) create a hidden, high-speed tax on every 401(k) and retail investor. This isn't about a few rogue traders. This is the new architecture of modern finance -a system that sees a pandemic not as a tragedy, but as a volatility event

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