Not all news causes a halt. Some news - like terrorist attacks and Greeks burning down their banks and killing bank workers - happens during the...
The order is a blanket order as far as I can tell.
The idiocy that happened on May 6th is a direct result of the lack of liquidity providers because the SEC has been screwing with the market for...
Yes, I trade for a living at a trading company. I'm not a retail trader. What you don't seem to grasp is that how often it happens is not...
If you are well capitalized and your manage your risks, you can. However, you'll only make about 2% annually. essentially, this is what...
The something really bad has already happened - we've abdicated too much power to the political class by screaming "there should be a law" every...
Well, if you're the most libertarian person you know, you don't know very many libertarians. Don't worry, though. Fiat currency is collapsing...
First of all, I think you probably didn't overhear enough information. This sounds bogus and "I overheard" should not be a basis for making...
I agree. The SEC is really screwing with the market to try to correct the iliquidity it caused with all of its bans and trading rule changes...
2 & 3 go hand in hand and that's all you really need. Left to their own devices and without government sticking its nose into everything,...
Who needs that? If the "middle class" is comprised of leeches, then it needs to be killed. Leeches eventually kill the host. Have a good...
Fair and consistent by the arbitrary measures of a bunch of people who don't know what a buy or sell order is or by the measures of the people who...
You understand that what you're saying is WAYYYY to logical for the flunkies euphemistically known to us as "regulators". They quickly threw this...
The regulators are NEVER sorry because they'll just keep watching porn like always. It'll be the retail guys who are sorry because the market...
My justification is that I know finance and economics and understand what swaps are. I'm in no mood to teach basics to guys full of opinions but...
says the guy who has no idea what he's talking about. Do some research - by people with actual degrees in subjects like economics and finance...
That's the plan. Have you seen the SEC's new plans to stop trading (via circuit breakers) every time the market dips? Note: there are no...
If you don't know the answer to that, you should close your trading account right now.
And as anyone who is an actual trader with actual knowledge of markets will point...there is NO difference between them..
Normally, I'd agree with you, but the exchanges got together in a big meeting AFTER THE FACT and decided at what level to bust trades. I'm not...
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