Flash Boys Emerge From Shadows to Reorder Stock Trading

The flash boys made famous by Michael Lewis were a secretive bunch. The high-frequency trading firms depicted in his 2014 bestseller worked almost unseen, leveraging their technical prowess to mint a fortune in the shadows between stock buyers and sellers.

Which is what makes Oscar van Schaijk’s current schedule such a surprise.

Instead of flying under the radar, this flash boy is flying all over Europe, attending conferences, roundtables, and the offices of major money managers. Basically any place that puts him in front of the investors that his employer, the Dutch market maker Optiver Holding BV, increasingly deals ...