I’m always interested in how Government ties in with the markets. It’s been a bit of a hobby of mine, along with WWII battles, over the past 2-3 years and there’s no bigger tie then Goldman and the Government then recently…and BOY is it bigger then we know! In my recent late night surfing I came across Greg Roy. Greg recently released a special report with the same title of this blog post, Goldman Sachs’ Next Slaughter of the Stock Market Lambs, and being the digger I am, I read the full report and cold called him. I asked if I could repost a part of the report for my Trader’s Blog members. After some convincing he said ok.

This guy knows what he is talking about… Here is an exclusive excerpt from his newly released report Goldman Sachs’ Next Slaughter of the Stock Market Lambs.

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Mathew Goldstein of Reuters broke a major story on Sunday implying just that. While most in the US were celebrating the 4th of July, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing top-secret computer trading codes from a major New York-based financial institution—that sources say is none other than Goldman Sachs.

This news is huge.  Why?  Because Goldman consistently ranks number one in the NYSE’s program trading report.  And this highly profitable desk is now in jeopardy.

The secret codes the accused man, Sergey Aleynikov, allegedly stole affect a section of the trading group that deals with low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy, and order submissions. Also known as one of Goldman’s biggest profit centers.

Federal authorities say the platform quickly processes rapid developments in the markets and uses top secret mathematical formulas to allow the firm to make highly-profitable automated trades.

The case began unfolding on

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