Wrong. There is one type of trader: Trader. When you come to the market to exchange your capital property you are a trader . Nobody is asking why...
Good points. Many of the HFT practices are illegal under Securities Law. One think to point out is that speculation and HFT was good in...
Thank you again for very informative posts. In that case ticks stamped with the same second should at least arrive in sequence. For some...
IQ Feed developer access: what does it let you do with the data? Any restrictions? SeattleAlgo who was so kind to post his review mentions in...
Everything is fine in ET land. Keep it free and respect all contributors: the ones you like and dislike. Each post has some info in it even if you...
When discussing FTT one point that hits home is: Exceptions and loopholes - bankers and market makers will be exempt and will not pay FTT....
Enron , Lehman etc. .... all with great fundamentals to the last moment before bankrupt.
Market manipulation and preventing others from having unrestricted access to market information is illegal but not enforced. This is the problem....
So how much continuous liquidity in the markets retail investors can provide? How much liquidity can be provided by single market center /...
Explain to them that they elect themselves by printing bonds and paying their supporters with this inflationary money. The financial sector is a...
It is so simple and it is amazing that anything needs to be explained. Two parties meet at the exchange and trade at the price they agree on at...
The 5000 shares is a bait. This is trading. Nobody will show their hand. You can only try to discover liquidity by hitting the posted quotes....
Lack of understanding how the market works and supplanting it with quotes from incompetent and ideologically motivated media. HFT is about...
Disagree. Everything you need to know about the markets is there. Suggest reading it again.
Translation for mathematically clueless: If you kill the cow that produces milk then there is no more milk and no cow! (these experiments...
Agree. But the effects of that hit are wider and long lasting. It is not about today and maybe tomorrow. This hit hits everybody in the long run...
Understood. However this is exchange of capital property for cash which is zero sum transaction. Capital property is completely different...
Key word is Capital. It is not a hit. It is removal of Capital from the economy. It is transfer of money from economically active people to...
Pro FTT arguments show complete misunderstanding of basic economics. My question is if you can legally tax an event where there is no...
The solution is already enacted in Securities Law but not enforced. Anything that amounts to price manipulation and information dissemination...
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