Released on April 1, 2014, the Flash Boys book made a splash in the American financial world. In the first week, 130,000 copies were sold, and the FBI announced the opening of an investigation into high-frequency trading (HFT). This only confirms that the author of the book, American writer and financial journalist Michael Lewis, got to the most painful point of the modern stock market, which is considered an icon of global capitalism, but in reality is a scam started by stock exchanges, large banks and high-frequency traders. This scam was exposed by a small group of "Wall Street guys". Working for different companies, they abandoned highly paid positions, found allies in each other and, united, went on the warpath against financial tycoons. The culmination of their struggle was the establishment of an independent stock exchange, fairly arranged in relation to all market participants. The book will be of interest to everyone who is involved in stock trading and who is interested in its secret mechanisms.