Alexandre Laumonier is a book publisher (Zones Sensibles) and an independent researcher in anthropology working on market microstructure. In 2013-2014 he published 6¦5, the first book in French about the computerization of exchanges and the rise of high-frequency trading – due to be translated in Italian, German and English. He’s currently writing a sequel to this book, due to be released in October 2018. As a now well-known blogger under the name Sniper in Mahwah he extensively wrote about HFT technologies and communication networks employed to reduce latency between the different geographically-dispersed financial exchanges (he significantly investigated the world of low-latency wireless networks). He has been invited to feature his research work on market microstructure at Trade Tech (London, 2013), Market Microstructure. Confronting Many Views (Paris, 2015) and FOW (Amsterdam, 2018). He’s currently starting a new research project on “The nature of exchanges“, a historical anthropology of market microstructure beginning with the medieval and modern Scholastic thinkers who were the first to study market microstructure in the West.