The race to beat everyone else at high-frequency trading doesn’t just involve fiber-optic cables and custom code — it also brings in the next generation of technical minds. Partway through the story, a New York University student appears who has written a paper on using microwave pulses to influence ultra-low latency trading, and one of the major firms in the film hires him to bring that research into real-world trading infrastructure. His inclusion highlights a broader truth about today’s marke