Robots in the stock market? Or maybe extra-terrestrials?
Connecting the dots in Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky". The Emergent's use their advanced knowledge of computing and networking to compromise the Spider's systems and networks. Effectively running their own software company.
Could just as easily manipulate the markets in other fashions.
Plausible? I suppose so. Likely? Not very.
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